http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2014/900/article/1Council Decision of 9 December 2014 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure (2014/900/EU)Council Decision of 9 December 2014 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure (2014/900/EU)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:32014D0900texttext/xmlen2014-12-09
Article 1

Annex III to the Rules of Procedure is replaced by the following:

ANNEX III

Figures 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 January 2015 to 31 December 2015 shall be as follows:

Member State

Population (× 1 000)

Percentage of the population of the Union

Germany

80 704,691

15,91

France

66 076,909

13,02

United Kingdom

64 105,654

12,63

Italy

61 152,798

12,05

Spain

46 507,76

9,17

Poland

38 018,0

7,49

Romania

19 942,642

3,93

Netherlands

17 082,0

3,37

Belgium

11 203,992

2,21

Greece

10 992,783

2,17

Portugal

10 427,301

2,06

Czech Republic

10 398,697

2,05

Hungary

9 877,365

1,95

Sweden

9 644,864

1,90

Austria

8 511,0

1,68

Bulgaria

7 245,677

1,43

Denmark

5 621,607

1,11

Finland

5 451,27

1,07

Slovakia

5 400,598

1,06

Ireland

4 604,029

0,91

Croatia

4 246,809

0,84

Lithuania

2 943,472

0,58

Slovenia

2 061,085

0,41

Latvia

2 001,468

0,39

Estonia

1 315,819

0,26

Cyprus

858,000

0,17

Luxembourg

549,680

0,11

Malta

425,384

0,08

Total

507 371,354

Threshold (62 %)

314 570,239

Threshold (65 %)

329 791,38