Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2023/2827

law://eu/dec/2023/2827@2026-11-12

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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 2024.

(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 2024.

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	84311244	18,72
France	68070697	15,11
Italy	59691110	13,25
Spain	48063694	10,67
Poland	37723532	8,37
Romania	19051562	4,23
Netherlands	17956453	3,99
Belgium	11754004	2,61
Czechia	10833385	2,40
Sweden	10541000	2,34
Portugal	10516621	2,33
Greece	10415585	2,31
Hungary	9599744	2,13
Austria	9087000	2,02
Bulgaria	6498567	1,44
Denmark	5921952	1,31
Finland	5593070	1,24
Slovakia	5454629	1,21
Ireland	5194336	1,15
Croatia	3850894	0,85
Lithuania	2857279	0,63
Slovenia	2116972	0,47
Latvia	1883008	0,42
Estonia	1365884	0,3
Cyprus	920701	0,2
Luxembourg	658278	0,15
Malta	542051	0,12’
EU 27	450473252
Threshold (65 %)	292807614

Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2023/2827

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