CELEX: 32015D2393
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-08 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/2393 of 8 December 2015 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure

18.12.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 332/133
            
         COUNCIL DECISION (EU, Euratom) 2015/2393
   of 8 December 2015
   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 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 (‘the 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 2016,
            
         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 2016 to 31 December 2016 shall be as follows:
         
                     Member State
                  
                  
                     Population
                  
                  
                     Percentage of the population of the Union
                  
               
                     Germany
                  
                  
                     81 089 331
                  
                  
                     15,93
                  
               
                     France
                  
                  
                     66 352 469
                  
                  
                     13,04
                  
               
                     United Kingdom
                  
                  
                     64 767 115
                  
                  
                     12,73
                  
               
                     Italy
                  
                  
                     61 438 480
                  
                  
                     12,07
                  
               
                     Spain
                  
                  
                     46 439 864
                  
                  
                     9,12
                  
               
                     Poland
                  
                  
                     38 005 614
                  
                  
                     7,47
                  
               
                     Romania
                  
                  
                     19 861 408
                  
                  
                     3,90
                  
               
                     Netherlands
                  
                  
                     17 155 169
                  
                  
                     3,37
                  
               
                     Belgium
                  
                  
                     11 258 434
                  
                  
                     2,21
                  
               
                     Greece
                  
                  
                     10 846 979
                  
                  
                     2,13
                  
               
                     Czech Republic
                  
                  
                     10 419 743
                  
                  
                     2,05
                  
               
                     Portugal
                  
                  
                     10 374 822
                  
                  
                     2,04
                  
               
                     Hungary
                  
                  
                     9 855 571
                  
                  
                     1,94
                  
               
                     Sweden
                  
                  
                     9 790 000
                  
                  
                     1,92
                  
               
                     Austria
                  
                  
                     8 581 500
                  
                  
                     1,69
                  
               
                     Bulgaria
                  
                  
                     7 202 198
                  
                  
                     1,42
                  
               
                     Denmark
                  
                  
                     5 653 357
                  
                  
                     1,11
                  
               
                     Finland
                  
                  
                     5 471 753
                  
                  
                     1,08
                  
               
                     Slovakia
                  
                  
                     5 403 134
                  
                  
                     1,06
                  
               
                     Ireland
                  
                  
                     4 625 885
                  
                  
                     0,91
                  
               
                     Croatia
                  
                  
                     4 225 316
                  
                  
                     0,83
                  
               
                     Lithuania
                  
                  
                     2 921 262
                  
                  
                     0,57
                  
               
                     Slovenia
                  
                  
                     2 062 874
                  
                  
                     0,41
                  
               
                     Latvia
                  
                  
                     1 986 096
                  
                  
                     0,39
                  
               
                     Estonia
                  
                  
                     1 313 271
                  
                  
                     0,26
                  
               
                     Cyprus
                  
                  
                     847 008
                  
                  
                     0,17
                  
               
                     Luxembourg
                  
                  
                     562 958
                  
                  
                     0,11
                  
               
                     Malta
                  
                  
                     429 344
                  
                  
                     0,08
                  
               
                     Total
                  
                  
                     508 940 955
                  
                  
                      
                  
               
                     Threshold (62 %)
                  
                  
                     315 543 392
                  
                  
                      
                  
               
                     Threshold (65 %)
                  
                  
                     330 811 621’.
                  
                  
                      
                  
               
   
   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 2016.
   
      Done at Brussels, 8 December 2015.
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         P. GRAMEGNA
      
   
   
      (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).