Article 1 
The Council's Rules of Procedure of 15 September 2006 shall be replaced by the provisions in the Annex. By derogation from Article 2(2) of Annex III to the Council's Rules of Procedure, the population figures which are inserted by this Decision in Article 1 of that Annex shall apply for the period from 1 December 2009 to 31 December 2010.
Article 2 
In accordance with the Protocol on the role of national Parliaments in the European Union, Article 3(3) of the Council's Rules of Procedure as adopted by this Decision shall apply to draft legislative acts adopted and forwarded as from the day on which the Treaty of Lisbon comes into force.
Article 3 
This Decision shall take effect of the day of its adoption. It shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union .