In Bavaria, the dispute was settled by signing a lump-sum agreement amounting to 290,000€, which would be paid out from the communal budget.

During the 1990s many items of consumption were privatized and the members' personal budgets were enlarged as the communal budget decreased in scope.

The quota system which determined the contributions of the seven provinces to the communal budget had not been revised since 1616 and had arguably grown skewed.