CELEX: 32014D0900
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-09 00:00:00
Title: 2014/900/EU: Council Decision of 9 December 2014 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure

13.12.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 358/25
            
         COUNCIL DECISION
   of 9 December 2014
   amending the Council's Rules of Procedure
   
      (2014/900/EU)
   
   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 (1),
   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:
   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, 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 (× 1 000)
                  
                  
                     Percentage of the population of the Union
                  
               
                     Germany
                  
                  
                     80 704,691
                  
                  
                     15,91
                  
               
                     France
                  
                  
                     66 076,909
                  
                  
                     13,02
                  
               
                     United Kingdom
                  
                  
                     64 105,654
                  
                  
                     12,63
                  
               
                     Italy
                  
                  
                     61 152,798
                  
                  
                     12,05
                  
               
                     Spain
                  
                  
                     46 507,760
                  
                  
                     9,17
                  
               
                     Poland
                  
                  
                     38 018,000
                  
                  
                     7,49
                  
               
                     Romania
                  
                  
                     19 942,642
                  
                  
                     3,93
                  
               
                     Netherlands
                  
                  
                     17 082,000
                  
                  
                     3,37
                  
               
                     Belgium
                  
                  
                     11 203,992
                  
                  
                     2,21
                  
               
                     Greece
                  
                  
                     10 992,783
                  
                  
                     2,17
                  
               
                     Portugal
                  
                  
                     10 427,301
                  
                  
                     2,06
                  
               
                     Czech Republic
                  
                  
                     10 398,697
                  
                  
                     2,05
                  
               
                     Hungary
                  
                  
                     9 877,365
                  
                  
                     1,95
                  
               
                     Sweden
                  
                  
                     9 644,864
                  
                  
                     1,90
                  
               
                     Austria
                  
                  
                     8 511,000
                  
                  
                     1,68
                  
               
                     Bulgaria
                  
                  
                     7 245,677
                  
                  
                     1,43
                  
               
                     Denmark
                  
                  
                     5 621,607
                  
                  
                     1,11
                  
               
                     Finland
                  
                  
                     5 451,270
                  
                  
                     1,07
                  
               
                     Slovakia
                  
                  
                     5 400,598
                  
                  
                     1,06
                  
               
                     Ireland
                  
                  
                     4 604,029
                  
                  
                     0,91
                  
               
                     Croatia
                  
                  
                     4 246,809
                  
                  
                     0,84
                  
               
                     Lithuania
                  
                  
                     2 943,472
                  
                  
                     0,58
                  
               
                     Slovenia
                  
                  
                     2 061,085
                  
                  
                     0,41
                  
               
                     Latvia
                  
                  
                     2 001,468
                  
                  
                     0,39
                  
               
                     Estonia
                  
                  
                     1 315,819
                  
                  
                     0,26
                  
               
                     Cyprus
                  
                  
                     858,000
                  
                  
                     0,17
                  
               
                     Luxembourg
                  
                  
                     549,680
                  
                  
                     0,11
                  
               
                     Malta
                  
                  
                     425,384
                  
                  
                     0,08
                  
               
                     Total
                  
                  
                     507 371,354
                  
                  
                      
                  
               
                     Threshold (62 %)
                  
                  
                     314 570,239
                  
                  
                      
                  
               
                     Threshold (65 %)
                  
                  
                     329 791,380’
                  
                  
                      
                  
               
   
   Article 2
   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.
   
      Done at Brussels, 9 December 2014.
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         C. DE VINCENTI
      
   
   
      (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).