Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/2461 of 12 December 2017 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure

Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/2461 · 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, 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 2018 to 31 December 2018 shall be as follows: Member State Population Percentage of the population of the Union (%) Germany 82 437 641 16,10 France 67 024 633 13,09 United Kingdom 65 808 573 12,85 Italy 61 219 113 11,95 Spain 46 528 966 9,08 Poland 37 972 964 7,41 Romania 19 638 309 3,83 Netherlands 17 220 721 3,36 Belgium 11 365 834 2,22 Greece 10 757 293 2,10 Czech Republic 10 467 628 2,04 Portugal 10 309 573 2,01 Sweden 10 080 000 1,97 Hungary 9 797 561 1,91 Austria 8 752 500 1,71 Bulgaria 7 101 859 1,39 Denmark 5 743 947 1,12 Finland 5 499 447 1,07 Slovakia 5 435 343 1,06 Ireland 4 774 833 0,93 Croatia 4 154 213 0,81 Lithuania 2 847 904 0,56 Slovenia 2 065 895 0,40 Latvia 1 950 116 0,38 Estonia 1 315 635 0,26 Cyprus 854 802 0,17 Luxembourg 589 370 0,12 Malta 440 433 0,09 EU 28 512 155 106 Threshold (65 %) 332 900 819 ’.

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 2018.

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