Article 1 of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:
‘Article 1
For the purposes of implementing Article 205(4) of the EC Treaty, Article 118(4) of the Euratom Treaty, and the third subparagraph of Article 23(2) and Article 34(3) of the EU Treaty, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2007 shall be as follows:
Member State
Population
(× 1 000 )
Germany
82 438,0
France
62 886,2
United Kingdom
60 421,9
Italy
58 751,7
Spain
43 758,3
Poland
38 157,1
Romania
21 610,2
Netherlands
16 334,2
Greece
11 125,2
Portugal
10 569,6
Belgium
10 511,4
Czech Republic
10 251,1
Hungary
10 076,6
Sweden
9 047,8
Austria
8 265,9
Bulgaria
7 718,8
Denmark
5 427,5
Slovakia
5 389,2
Finland
5 255,6
Ireland
4 209,0
Lithuania
3 403,3
Latvia
2 294,6
Slovenia
2 003,4
Estonia
1 344,7
Cyprus
766,4
Luxembourg
459,5
Malta
404,3
Total
492 881,2
Threshold (62 %)
305 586,3 ’