CELEX: 32006D0034
Language: en
Date: 2006-01-23 00:00:00
Title: 2006/34/EC,Euratom: Council Decision of  23 January 2006  amending the Council's Rules of Procedure

26.1.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 22/32
            
         
      COUNCIL DECISION
   
   of 23 January 2006
   amending the Council's Rules of Procedure
   (2006/34/EC, Euratom)
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 207(3) thereof,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 121(3) thereof,
   Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Articles 28(1) and 41(1) thereof,
   Having regard to Article 2(2) of Annex IIa to the Council's Rules of Procedure (1),
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Article 11(5) of the Council's Rules of Procedure (hereinafter referred to as Rules of Procedure) provides that when a decision is to be adopted by the Council by a qualified majority, and if a member of the Council so requests, it shall be verified that the Member States constituting the qualified majority represent at least 62 % of the total population of the Union calculated according to the population figures set out in Article 1 of Annex IIa to the Rules of Procedure.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Article 2(2) of Annex IIa to the Rules of Procedure on detailed rules for implementing the provisions concerning the weighting of votes in the Council provides that, with effect from 1 January each year, the Council shall, in accordance with the data available to the Statistical Office of the European Communities on 30 September of the preceding year, amend the figures set out in Article 1 of that Annex.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               The Rules of Procedure should therefore be amended accordingly,
            
         HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
   Article 1
   Article 1 of Annex IIa to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:
   
      ‘Article 1
      For the purposes of implementing Article 205(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Community, Article 118(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and the third subparagraph of Article 23(2) and Article 34(3) of the Treaty on European Union, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2006 shall be as follows:
      
                  Member State
               
               
                  Population
                  (× 1 000)
               
            
                  Germany
               
               
                  82 500,8
               
            
                  France
               
               
                  62 370,8
               
            
                  United Kingdom
               
               
                  60 063,2
               
            
                  Italy
               
               
                  58 462,4
               
            
                  Spain
               
               
                  43 038,0
               
            
                  Poland
               
               
                  38 173,8
               
            
                  Netherlands
               
               
                  16 305,5
               
            
                  Greece
               
               
                  11 073,0
               
            
                  Portugal
               
               
                  10 529,3
               
            
                  Belgium
               
               
                  10 445,9
               
            
                  Czech Republic
               
               
                  10 220,6
               
            
                  Hungary
               
               
                  10 097,5
               
            
                  Sweden
               
               
                  9 011,4
               
            
                  Austria
               
               
                  8 206,5
               
            
                  Denmark
               
               
                  5 411,4
               
            
                  Slovakia
               
               
                  5 384,8
               
            
                  Finland
               
               
                  5 236,6
               
            
                  Ireland
               
               
                  4 109,2
               
            
                  Lithuania
               
               
                  3 425,3
               
            
                  Latvia
               
               
                  2 306,4
               
            
                  Slovenia
               
               
                  1 997,6
               
            
                  Estonia
               
               
                  1 347,0
               
            
                  Cyprus
               
               
                  749,2
               
            
                  Luxembourg
               
               
                  455,0
               
            
                  Malta
               
               
                  402,7
               
            
                  Total
               
               
                  461 324,0
               
            
                  Threshold (62 %)
               
               
                  286 020,9’
               
            
   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 2006.
   
      Done at Brussels, 23 January 2006.
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         J. PRÖLL
         
      
   
   
      (1)  Council Decision 2004/338/EC, Euratom of 22 March 2004 adopting the Council's Rules of Procedure (OJ L 106, 15.4.2004, p. 22). Decision as amended by Decision 2004/701/EC, Euratom (OJ L 319, 20.10.2004, p. 15).