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 16(5) of the TEU and Article 3(3) and (4) of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011 shall be as follows: Member State Population (× 1 000 ) Germany 81 802,3 France 64 714,1 United Kingdom 62 008,0 Italy 60 340,3 Spain 45 989,0 Poland 38 167,3 Romania 21 462,2 Netherlands 16 575,0 Greece 11 305,1 Belgium 10 827,0 Portugal 10 637,7 Czech Republic 10 506,8 Hungary 10 014,3 Sweden 9 340,7 Austria 8 375,3 Bulgaria 7 563,7 Denmark 5 534,7 Slovakia 5 424,9 Finland 5 351,4 Ireland 4 467,9 Lithuania 3 329,0 Latvia 2 248,4 Slovenia 2 047,0 Estonia 1 340,1 Cyprus 803,1 Luxembourg 502,1 Malta 413,0 Total 501 090,4 Threshold (62 %) 310 676,1 ’