Article 1
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 ’