Article 1 of Annex IIa to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:
‘Article 1
For the purposes of implementing Article 205(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Community, Article 118(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and the third subparagraph of Article 23(2) and Article 34(3) of the Treaty on European Union, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2006 shall be as follows:
Member State
Population
(× 1 000 )
Germany
82 500,8
France
62 370,8
United Kingdom
60 063,2
Italy
58 462,4
Spain
43 038,0
Poland
38 173,8
Netherlands
16 305,5
Greece
11 073,0
Portugal
10 529,3
Belgium
10 445,9
Czech Republic
10 220,6
Hungary
10 097,5
Sweden
9 011,4
Austria
8 206,5
Denmark
5 411,4
Slovakia
5 384,8
Finland
5 236,6
Ireland
4 109,2
Lithuania
3 425,3
Latvia
2 306,4
Slovenia
1 997,6
Estonia
1 347,0
Cyprus
749,2
Luxembourg
455,0
Malta
402,7
Total
461 324,0
Threshold (62 %)
286 020,9 ’