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 annexed to the Treaties, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012 shall be as follows:
Member State | Population(× 1 000)
Germany | 81 751,6
France | 65 075,4
United Kingdom | 62 435,7
Italy | 60 626,4
Spain | 46 152,9
Poland | 38 200,0
Romania | 21 413,8
Netherlands | 16 655,8
Greece | 11 325,9
Belgium | 10 918,4
Portugal | 10 637,0
Czech Republic | 10 532,8
Hungary | 9 985,7
Sweden | 9 415,6
Austria | 8 404,3
Bulgaria | 7 504,9
Denmark | 5 560,6
Slovakia | 5 435,3
Finland | 5 375,3
Ireland | 4 480,9
Lithuania | 3 244,6
Latvia | 2 229,6
Slovenia | 2 050,2
Estonia | 1 340,2
Cyprus | 804,4
Luxembourg | 511,8
Malta | 417,6
Total | 502 486,7
Threshold (62 %) | 311 541,8