CELEX: 32020D2030
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-10 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2030 of 10 December 2020 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure

11.12.2020   
               
               
                  EN
               
               
                  Official Journal of the European Union
               
               
                  L 419/24
               
            
         COUNCIL DECISION (EU, Euratom) 2020/2030
         of 10 December 2020
         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, 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’) (1).
                  
               
                     (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 2021.
                  
               
                     (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:
         
            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
                     
                     
                                 Member State
                              
                              
                                 Population
                              
                              
                                 Percentage of the population of the Union (%)
                              
                           
                                 Germany
                              
                              
                                 83 100 961 
                              
                              
                                 18,54
                              
                           
                                 France
                              
                              
                                 67 098 824 
                              
                              
                                 14,97
                              
                           
                                 Italy
                              
                              
                                 60 897 891 
                              
                              
                                 13,58
                              
                           
                                 Spain
                              
                              
                                 47 329 981 
                              
                              
                                 10,56
                              
                           
                                 Poland
                              
                              
                                 37 958 138 
                              
                              
                                 8,47
                              
                           
                                 Romania
                              
                              
                                 19 317 984 
                              
                              
                                 4,31
                              
                           
                                 Netherlands
                              
                              
                                 17 549 457 
                              
                              
                                 3,91
                              
                           
                                 Belgium
                              
                              
                                 11 549 888 
                              
                              
                                 2,58
                              
                           
                                 Greece
                              
                              
                                 10 709 739 
                              
                              
                                 2,39
                              
                           
                                 Czechia
                              
                              
                                 10 557 001 
                              
                              
                                 2,35
                              
                           
                                 Sweden
                              
                              
                                 10 330 000 
                              
                              
                                 2,30
                              
                           
                                 Portugal
                              
                              
                                 10 295 909 
                              
                              
                                 2,30
                              
                           
                                 Hungary
                              
                              
                                 9 769 526 
                              
                              
                                 2,18
                              
                           
                                 Austria
                              
                              
                                 8 897 000 
                              
                              
                                 1,98
                              
                           
                                 Bulgaria
                              
                              
                                 6 951 482 
                              
                              
                                 1,55
                              
                           
                                 Denmark
                              
                              
                                 5 816 443 
                              
                              
                                 1,30
                              
                           
                                 Finland
                              
                              
                                 5 521 292 
                              
                              
                                 1,23
                              
                           
                                 Slovakia
                              
                              
                                 5 457 873 
                              
                              
                                 1,22
                              
                           
                                 Ireland
                              
                              
                                 4 964 440 
                              
                              
                                 1,11
                              
                           
                                 Croatia
                              
                              
                                 4 058 165 
                              
                              
                                 0,91
                              
                           
                                 Lithuania
                              
                              
                                 2 794 090 
                              
                              
                                 0,62
                              
                           
                                 Slovenia
                              
                              
                                 2 095 861 
                              
                              
                                 0,47
                              
                           
                                 Latvia
                              
                              
                                 1 907 675 
                              
                              
                                 0,43
                              
                           
                                 Estonia
                              
                              
                                 1 328 976 
                              
                              
                                 0,30
                              
                           
                                 Cyprus
                              
                              
                                 888 005 
                              
                              
                                 0,20
                              
                           
                                 Luxembourg
                              
                              
                                 623 962 
                              
                              
                                 0,14
                              
                           
                                 Malta
                              
                              
                                 514 564 
                              
                              
                                 0,11
                              
                           
                                 EU-27
                              
                              
                                 448 285 127 
                              
                              
                                  
                              
                           
                                 Threshold (65 %)
                              
                              
                                 291 385 333 
                              
                              
                                  
                              
                           
               ’
         
         
            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 2021.
         
         
            Done at Brussels, 10 December 2020.
            
               
                  For the Council
               
               
                  The President
               
               M. ROTH
            
         
         
            (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).