ANNEX

(as referred to in Article 13c(iv))
1.
For the purposes of the voting pursuant to Article 13c, the four ECB representatives must be assigned as defined in the following paragraphs, the median weighted votes of the participating Member States under the weighted votes criterion, the median population of the participating Member States under the population criterion and, by virtue of their membership in the Supervisory Board, a vote under the number of members criterion.
2.
Ranking, in ascending order, the weighted votes assigned to the participating Member States by Article 3 of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions for the members representing the participating Member States, the median weighted vote is defined as the middle weighted vote if there is an odd number of participating Member States, and as the average of the two middle numbers, rounded up to the nearest whole number, if their number is even. Four times the median weighted vote must be added to the overall number of weighted votes of the participating Member States. The resulting number of weighted votes shall constitute the
‘
total number of weighted votes
’ .
3.
The median population is defined in accordance with the same principle. For this purpose, recourse will be made to the figures published by the Council of the European Union as per Annex III, Article 1 and 2 of Council Decision 2009/937/EU of
1 December 2009
adopting the Council’s Rules of Procedure
. Four times the median population of the participating Member States must be added to the combined population in all participating Member States. The resulting population number shall constitute
‘
the total population
’.
OJ L 325, 11.12.2009, p. 35 .
Inserted by Decision of the European Central Bank of 22 January 2014 amending Decision ECB/2004/2 adopting the Rules of Procedure of the European Central Bank (ECB/2014/1) (2014/179/EU).