Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2022/2518

law://eu/dec/2022/2518@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 2023.

(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 2023.

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	83203320	18,59
France	67842582	15,16
Italy	59607184	13,32
Spain	47432805	10,6
Poland	37654247	8,41
Romania	19038098	4,25
Netherlands	17734036	3,96
Belgium	11631136	2,6
Greece	10603810	2,37
Czechia	10545457	2,36
Sweden	10440000	2,33
Portugal	10352042	2,31
Hungary	9689010	2,17
Austria	8967500	2,00
Bulgaria	6838937	1,53
Denmark	5864667	1,31
Finland	5541241	1,24
Slovakia	5434712	1,21
Ireland	5060004	1,13
Croatia	3862305	0,86
Lithuania	2805998	0,63
Slovenia	2107180	0,47
Latvia	1875757	0,42
Estonia	1331796	0,3
Cyprus	904700	0,2
Luxembourg	643648	0,14
Malta	520971	0,12
EU 27	447533143
Threshold (65 %)	290896543

Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2022/2518

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