Council Decision of 14 December 2010 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure (2010/795/EU)
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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,
Having regard to Article 2(2) of Annex III to the Council’s Rules of Procedure,
Whereas:
(1) Article 3(3), fourth subparagraph, of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions annexed to the Treaties provides that, until 31 October 2014, when an act 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 III to the Council’s Rules of Procedure (hereinafter Rules of Procedure).
(2) Article 2(2) of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure provides that, with effect from 1 January each year, the Council, in accordance with the data available to the Statistical Office of the European Union on 30 September of the preceding year, amends the figures set out in Article 1 of that Annex.
(3) The Rules of Procedure should therefore be amended accordingly for 2011,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Article 1 of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:
Article 1
Article 1
For the purposes of implementing Article 16(5) of the TEU and Article 3(3) and (4) of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011 shall be as follows: Member State Population (× 1000) Germany 81802,3 France 64714,1 United Kingdom 62008,0 Italy 60340,3 Spain 45989,0 Poland 38167,3 Romania 21462,2 Netherlands 16575,0 Greece 11305,1 Belgium 10827,0 Portugal 10637,7 Czech Republic 10506,8 Hungary 10014,3 Sweden 9340,7 Austria 8375,3 Bulgaria 7563,7 Denmark 5534,7 Slovakia 5424,9 Finland 5351,4 Ireland 4467,9 Lithuania 3329,0 Latvia 2248,4 Slovenia 2047,0 Estonia 1340,1 Cyprus 803,1 Luxembourg 502,1 Malta 413,0 Total 501090,4 Threshold (62 %) 310676,1
Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 January 2011.
Done at Brussels, 14 December 2010. For the Council The President S. Vanackere