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 2008 shall be as follows:
Member State
Population
(× 1 000 )
Germany
82 314,9
France
63 392,1
United Kingdom
60 823,8
Italy
59 131,3
Spain
44 474,6
Poland
38 125,5
Romania
21 565,1
Netherlands
16 358
Greece
11 171,7
Portugal
10 599,1
Belgium
10 584,5
Czech Republic
10 287,2
Hungary
10 066,1
Sweden
9 113,2
Austria
8 298,9
Bulgaria
7 679,3
Denmark
5 447,1
Slovakia
5 393,6
Finland
5 276,9
Ireland
4 319,4
Lithuania
3 384,9
Latvia
2 281,3
Slovenia
2 010,3
Estonia
1 342,4
Cyprus
778,7
Luxembourg
476,2
Malta
407,8
Total
495 103,9
Threshold (62 %)
306 964,4 ’