Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2021/2320

law://eu/dec/2021/2320@2026-11-13

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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Tr…
1 Annex III to the Rules of Procedure is replaced by the fol…
2 This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its pu…
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

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, and in particular Article 240(3) thereof,Whereas:

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

(2)That percentage is calculated according to the population figures set out in Annex III to the Council’s Rules of Procedure (‘the Rules of Procedure’)^note.

(3)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.

(4)The Rules of Procedure should therefore be amended accordingly for the year 2022.

(5)In accordance with Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, Article 240 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union applies to the European Atomic Energy Community,

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 date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.It shall apply from 1 January 2022.

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

Member State	Population	Percentage of the population of the Union (%)
Germany	83120520	18,57
France	67439614	15,07
Italy	59862348	13,38
Spain	47394223	10,59
Poland	37840001	8,45
Romania	19186201	4,29
Netherlands	17617840	3,94
Belgium	11566041	2,58
Greece	10682547	2,39
Czechia	10574153	2,36
Sweden	10370000	2,32
Portugal	10298252	2,30
Hungary	9730772	2,17
Austria	8926000	1,99
Bulgaria	6916548	1,55
Denmark	5833883	1,30
Finland	5527493	1,24
Slovakia	5459781	1,22
Ireland	5006324	1,12
Croatia	4036355	0,90
Lithuania	2795680	0,62
Slovenia	2108977	0,47
Latvia	1893223	0,42
Estonia	1330068	0,30
Cyprus	896000	0,20
Luxembourg	633347	0,14
Malta	516100	0,12’
EU-27	447562291
Threshold (65 %)	290915489

Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2021/2320

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