Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2016/2353 of 8 December 2016 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure

Decision (EU, Euratom) 2016/2353 · Decision · 2 articles

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Article 1

Annex III to the Rules of Procedure is replaced by the following: ‘ANNEX III Figures concerning the population of the Union and the population of each Member State for implementing the provisions concerning qualified majority voting in the Council For the purposes of implementing Article 16(4) TEU and Article 238(2) and (3) TFEU, as well as, until 31 March 2017, Article 3(2) of Protocol No 36, the population of the Union and the population of each Member State, as well as the percentage of each Member State's population in relation to the population of the Union, for the period from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017 shall be as follows: Member State Population Percentage of the population of the Union Germany 82 064 489 16,06 % France 66 661 621 13,05 % United Kingdom 65 341 183 12,79 % Italy 61 302 519 12,00 % Spain 46 438 422 9,09 % Poland 37 967 209 7,43 % Romania 19 759 968 3,87 % Netherlands 17 235 349 3,37 % Belgium 11 289 853 2,21 % Greece 10 793 526 2,11 % Czech Republic 10 445 783 2,04 % Portugal 10 341 330 2,02 % Sweden 9 998 000 1,96 % Hungary 9 830 485 1,92 % Austria 8 711 500 1,71 % Bulgaria 7 153 784 1,40 % Denmark 5 700 917 1,12 % Finland 5 465 408 1,07 % Slovakia 5 407 910 1,06 % Ireland 4 664 156 0,91 % Croatia 4 190 669 0,82 % Lithuania 2 888 558 0,57 % Slovenia 2 064 188 0,40 % Latvia 1 968 957 0,39 % Estonia 1 315 944 0,26 % Cyprus 848 319 0,17 % Luxembourg 576 249 0,11 % Malta 434 403 0,09 % EU 28 510 860 699 Threshold (62 %) 316 733 634 Threshold (65 %) 332 059 455 ’.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . It shall apply from 1 January 2017.

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