CELEX: 32017D2461
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/2461 of 12 December 2017 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure

29.12.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 348/36
            
         COUNCIL DECISION (EU, Euratom) 2017/2461
   of 12 December 2017
   amending the Council's Rules of Procedure
   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 the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,
   Having regard to Article 11(6) of the Council's Rules of Procedure (1),
   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’).
            
         
               (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 2018,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   Annex III to the Rules of Procedure is replaced by the following:
   ‘
         ANNEX 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
         For the purposes of implementing Article 16(4) TEU and Article 238(2) and (3) TFEU, 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 2018 to 31 December 2018 shall be as follows:
         
                     Member State
                  
                  
                     Population
                  
                  
                     Percentage of the population of the Union (%)
                  
               
                     Germany
                  
                  
                     82 437 641 
                  
                  
                     16,10
                  
               
                     France
                  
                  
                     67 024 633 
                  
                  
                     13,09
                  
               
                     United Kingdom
                  
                  
                     65 808 573 
                  
                  
                     12,85
                  
               
                     Italy
                  
                  
                     61 219 113 
                  
                  
                     11,95
                  
               
                     Spain
                  
                  
                     46 528 966 
                  
                  
                     9,08
                  
               
                     Poland
                  
                  
                     37 972 964 
                  
                  
                     7,41
                  
               
                     Romania
                  
                  
                     19 638 309 
                  
                  
                     3,83
                  
               
                     Netherlands
                  
                  
                     17 220 721 
                  
                  
                     3,36
                  
               
                     Belgium
                  
                  
                     11 365 834 
                  
                  
                     2,22
                  
               
                     Greece
                  
                  
                     10 757 293 
                  
                  
                     2,10
                  
               
                     Czech Republic
                  
                  
                     10 467 628 
                  
                  
                     2,04
                  
               
                     Portugal
                  
                  
                     10 309 573 
                  
                  
                     2,01
                  
               
                     Sweden
                  
                  
                     10 080 000 
                  
                  
                     1,97
                  
               
                     Hungary
                  
                  
                     9 797 561 
                  
                  
                     1,91
                  
               
                     Austria
                  
                  
                     8 752 500 
                  
                  
                     1,71
                  
               
                     Bulgaria
                  
                  
                     7 101 859 
                  
                  
                     1,39
                  
               
                     Denmark
                  
                  
                     5 743 947 
                  
                  
                     1,12
                  
               
                     Finland
                  
                  
                     5 499 447 
                  
                  
                     1,07
                  
               
                     Slovakia
                  
                  
                     5 435 343 
                  
                  
                     1,06
                  
               
                     Ireland
                  
                  
                     4 774 833 
                  
                  
                     0,93
                  
               
                     Croatia
                  
                  
                     4 154 213 
                  
                  
                     0,81
                  
               
                     Lithuania
                  
                  
                     2 847 904 
                  
                  
                     0,56
                  
               
                     Slovenia
                  
                  
                     2 065 895 
                  
                  
                     0,40
                  
               
                     Latvia
                  
                  
                     1 950 116 
                  
                  
                     0,38
                  
               
                     Estonia
                  
                  
                     1 315 635 
                  
                  
                     0,26
                  
               
                     Cyprus
                  
                  
                     854 802 
                  
                  
                     0,17
                  
               
                     Luxembourg
                  
                  
                     589 370 
                  
                  
                     0,12
                  
               
                     Malta
                  
                  
                     440 433 
                  
                  
                     0,09
                  
               
                     EU 28
                  
                  
                     512 155 106 
                  
                  
                      
                  
               
                     Threshold (65 %)
                  
                  
                     332 900 819 
                  
                  
                      
                  
               ’.
   Article 2
   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 2018.
   
      Done at Brussels, 12 December 2017.
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         S. MIKSER
      
   
   
      (1)  Council Decision 2009/937/EU of 1 December 2009 adopting the Council's Rules of Procedure (OJ L 325, 11.12.2009, p. 35).