Article 1 of Annex IIa to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:‘Article 1For the purposes of implementing Article 205(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Community, Article 118(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and the third subparagraph of Article 23(2) and Article 34(3) of the Treaty on European Union, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2006 shall be as follows:Member State | Population(× 1000)Germany | 82500,8France | 62370,8United Kingdom | 60063,2Italy | 58462,4Spain | 43038,0Poland | 38173,8Netherlands | 16305,5Greece | 11073,0Portugal | 10529,3Belgium | 10445,9Czech Republic | 10220,6Hungary | 10097,5Sweden | 9011,4Austria | 8206,5Denmark | 5411,4Slovakia | 5384,8Finland | 5236,6Ireland | 4109,2Lithuania | 3425,3Latvia | 2306,4Slovenia | 1997,6Estonia | 1347,0Cyprus | 749,2Luxembourg | 455,0Malta | 402,7Total | 461324,0Threshold (62 %) | 286020,9