Council Decision 2014/900/EU

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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,Having regard to the Treaty on European Union,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Article 11(6) of the Council's Rules of Procedure^note,Whereas:

(1)From 1 November 2014, when an act is to be adopted by the Council acting by qualified majority, it must be verified that the Member States constituting the qualified majority represent at least 65 % of the population of the Union.

(2)Until 31 March 2017, when an act is to be adopted by the Council acting by qualified majority, a member of the Council may request that it be adopted in accordance with the qualified majority as defined in Article 3(3) of Protocol No 36 on transitional provisions, 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. In that case, a member of the Council may request that a check be made to ensure that the Member States constituting the qualified majority represent at least 62 % of the total population of the Union.

(3)Those percentages are calculated according to the population figures set out in Annex III to the Council's Rules of Procedure (hereinafter ‘Rules of Procedure’).

(4)Article 11(6) of the Rules of Procedure provides that, with effect from 1 January each year, the Council is to amend the figures set out in that Annex, in accordance with the data available to the Statistical Office of the European Union on 30 September of the preceding year.

(5)The Rules of Procedure should therefore be amended accordingly for the year 2015,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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

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This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.It shall apply from 1 January 2015.

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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 (× 1000)	Percentage of the population of the Union
Germany	80704,691	15,91
France	66076,909	13,02
United Kingdom	64105,654	12,63
Italy	61152,798	12,05
Spain	46507,760	9,17
Poland	38018,000	7,49
Romania	19942,642	3,93
Netherlands	17082,000	3,37
Belgium	11203,992	2,21
Greece	10992,783	2,17
Portugal	10427,301	2,06
Czech Republic	10398,697	2,05
Hungary	9877,365	1,95
Sweden	9644,864	1,90
Austria	8511,000	1,68
Bulgaria	7245,677	1,43
Denmark	5621,607	1,11
Finland	5451,270	1,07
Slovakia	5400,598	1,06
Ireland	4604,029	0,91
Croatia	4246,809	0,84
Lithuania	2943,472	0,58
Slovenia	2061,085	0,41
Latvia	2001,468	0,39
Estonia	1315,819	0,26
Cyprus	858,000	0,17
Luxembourg	549,680	0,11
Malta	425,384	0,08
Total	507371,354
Threshold (62 %)	314570,239
Threshold (65 %)	329791,380’

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