http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/945/article/1Council Decision of 8 December 2008 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure (2008/945/EC, Euratom)Council Decision of 8 December 2008 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure (2008/945/EC, Euratom)2020-12-11King's Printer of Acts of Parliamenthttps://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32008D0945texttext/xmlen2008-12-08
Article 1

In Annex III to the Rules of Procedure, Article 1 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 2009 shall be as follows:

Member State

Population(× 1 000)

Germany

82 217,8

France

63 753,1

United Kingdom

61 224,1

Italy

59 619,3

Spain

45 283,3

Poland

38 115,6

Romania

21 528,6

Netherlands

16 405,4

Greece

11 213,8

Belgium

10 666,9

Portugal

10 617,6

Czech Republic

10 381,1

Hungary

10 045,4

Sweden

9 182,9

Austria

8 331,9

Bulgaria

7 640,2

Denmark

5 475,8

Slovakia

5 401,0

Finland

5 300,5

Ireland

4 401,3

Lithuania

3 366,4

Latvia

2 270,9

Slovenia

2 025,9

Estonia

1 340,9

Cyprus

789,3

Luxembourg

483,8

Malta

410,3

Total

497 493,1

Threshold (62 %)

308 445,7

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