Article 1

The Rules of Procedure are amended as follows:

  1. (1)

    Article 11(5) is replaced by the following:

    ‘5.

    Where a decision is to be adopted by the Council acting by qualified majority, 65 % of the population of the Union or, where not all Member States participate in voting, of the population of the participating Member States, and the minimum number of Council members representing more than 35 % of the population of the participating Member States shall be calculated in accordance with the population figures set out in Annex III. These figures shall also apply between 1 November 2014 and 31 March 2017 where, in accordance with Article 3(2) of Protocol No 36 on transitional measures, annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, a member of the Council requests that an act be adopted in accordance with the qualified majority as defined in paragraph 3 of that Article and a member of the Council requests that it be verified that the Member States comprising the qualified majority represent at least 62 % of the total population of the Union.’.

  2. (2)

    In Article 11 the following paragraph is added:

    ‘6.

    With effect from 1 January each year, the Council shall, in accordance with the data available to the Statistical Office of the European Union on 30 September of the preceding year, amend the figures set out in Annex III. That Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.’.

  3. (3)

    Annex III is replaced by the following:

    ‘ANNEX IIIFigures concerning the population of the Union and the population of each Member State for implementing the provisions concerning qualified majority voting in the Council

    For the purposes of implementing Article 16(4) TEU, Article 238(2) and (3) TFEU and Article 3(2) of Protocol No 36, the population of the Union and the population of each Member State, as well as the percentage of each Member State's population in relation to the population of the Union, for the period from 1 November 2014 to 31 December 2014, shall be as follows:

    Member State

    Population (× 1 000)

    Percentage of the population of the Union

    Germany

    80 523,7

    15,93

    France

    65 633,2

    12,98

    United Kingdom

    63 730,1

    12,61

    Italy

    59 685,2

    11,81

    Spain

    46 704,3

    9,24

    Poland

    38 533,3

    7,62

    Romania

    20 057,5

    3,97

    Netherlands

    16 779,6

    3,32

    Belgium

    11 161,6

    2,21

    Greece

    11 062,5

    2,19

    Czech Republic

    10 516,1

    2,08

    Portugal

    10 487,3

    2,07

    Hungary

    9 908,8

    1,96

    Sweden

    9 555,9

    1,89

    Austria

    8 451,9

    1,67

    Bulgaria

    7 284,6

    1,44

    Denmark

    5 602,6

    1,11

    Finland

    5 426,7

    1,07

    Slovakia

    5 410,8

    1,07

    Ireland

    4 591,1

    0,91

    Croatia

    4 262,1

    0,84

    Lithuania

    2 971,9

    0,59

    Slovenia

    2 058,8

    0,41

    Latvia

    2 023,8

    0,40

    Estonia

    1 324,8

    0,26

    Cyprus

    865,9

    0,17

    Luxembourg

    537,0

    0,11

    Malta

    421,4

    0,08

    Total

    505 572,5

    100’

    Threshold 62 %

    313 455,0

    Threshold 65 %

    328 622,1