The Rules of Procedure of the Council of 22 March 2004 (2004/338/EC, Euratom)note are hereby amended as follows:
1.in Article 11 the following paragraph shall be added:‘5.When a decision is to be adopted by the Council by a qualified majority, and if a member of the Council so requests, it shall be verified that the Member States constituting the qualified majority represent at least 62 % of the total population of the Union calculated according to the population figures set out in Article 1 of Annex IIa.’;
2.after Annex II the following Annex shall be inserted: