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Council Decision of 20 December 2007 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure (2007/881/EC)

EU Decision 2007/881 · Adopted 20 December 2007 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Council Decision

of 20 December 2007

amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure

(2007/881/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 207(3) thereof,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 121(3) thereof,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Articles 28(1) and 41(1) thereof,

Having regard to Article 2(2) of Annex III to the Council’s Rules of Proceduref1,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 11(5) of the Council’s Rules of Procedure (hereinafter referred to as Rules of Procedure) provides that when a decision 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 European Union calculated according to the population figures set out in Article 1 of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure.

(2)

Article 2(2) of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure, on detailed rules for implementing the provisions concerning the weighting of votes in the Council, provides that, with effect from 1 January each year, the Council shall, in accordance with the data available to the Statistical Office of the European Communities on 30 September of the preceding year, amend the figures set out in Article 1 of that Annex.

(3)

The Rules of Procedure should therefore be amended accordingly for 2008,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

Council Decision 2006/683/EC, Euratom of 15 September 2006 adopting the Council’s Rules of Procedure (OJ L 285, 16.10.2006, p. 47).

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature

1

Article 1 of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

For the purposes of implementing Article 205(4) of the EC Treaty, Article 118(4) of the Euratom Treaty, and the third subparagraph of Article 23(2) and Article 34(3) of the EU Treaty, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2008 shall be as follows:

Member StatePopulation(× 1 000)
Germany82 314,9
France63 392,1
United Kingdom60 823,8
Italy59 131,3
Spain44 474,6
Poland38 125,5
Romania21 565,1
Netherlands16 358
Greece11 171,7
Portugal10 599,1
Belgium10 584,5
Czech Republic10 287,2
Hungary10 066,1
Sweden9 113,2
Austria8 298,9
Bulgaria7 679,3
Denmark5 447,1
Slovakia5 393,6
Finland5 276,9
Ireland4 319,4
Lithuania3 384,9
Latvia2 281,3
Slovenia2 010,3
Estonia1 342,4
Cyprus778,7
Luxembourg476,2
Malta407,8
Total495 103,9
Threshold (62 %)306 964,4

’

2

This Decision shall take effect on 1 January 2008.

It shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Signature

Done at Brussels, 20 December 2007.

For the Council

The President

F. Nunes Correia