Article 1 Article 1 of Annex IIa to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 1 For the purposes of implementing Article 205(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Community, Article 118(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and the third subparagraph of Article 23(2) and Article 34(3) of the Treaty on European Union, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2006 shall be as follows:
Member State	Population(× 1 000)
Germany	82 500,8
France	62 370,8
United Kingdom	60 063,2
Italy	58 462,4
Spain	43 038,0
Poland	38 173,8
Netherlands	16 305,5
Greece	11 073,0
Portugal	10 529,3
Belgium	10 445,9
Czech Republic	10 220,6
Hungary	10 097,5
Sweden	9 011,4
Austria	8 206,5
Denmark	5 411,4
Slovakia	5 384,8
Finland	5 236,6
Ireland	4 109,2
Lithuania	3 425,3
Latvia	2 306,4
Slovenia	1 997,6
Estonia	1 347,0
Cyprus	749,2
Luxembourg	455,0
Malta	402,7
Total	461 324,0
Threshold (62 %)	286 020,9’