{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-34/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-34/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2006/34",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 23 January 2006 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure (2006/34/EC, Euratom)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-34",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Article 1 of Annex IIa to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:\n‘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:\nMember State\nPopulation(× 1 000)\nGermany\n82 500,8\nFrance\n62 370,8\nUnited Kingdom\n60 063,2\nItaly\n58 462,4\nSpain\n43 038,0\nPoland\n38 173,8\nNetherlands\n16 305,5\nGreece\n11 073,0\nPortugal\n10 529,3\nBelgium\n10 445,9\nCzech Republic\n10 220,6\nHungary\n10 097,5\nSweden\n9 011,4\nAustria\n8 206,5\nDenmark\n5 411,4\nSlovakia\n5 384,8\nFinland\n5 236,6\nIreland\n4 109,2\nLithuania\n3 425,3\nLatvia\n2 306,4\nSlovenia\n1 997,6\nEstonia\n1 347,0\nCyprus\n749,2\nLuxembourg\n455,0\nMalta\n402,7\nTotal\n461 324,0\nThreshold (62 %)\n286 020,9\n’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/34/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:43.880414+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}