{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-881/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-881/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2007/881",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 20 December 2007 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure (2007/881/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-881",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Article 1 of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:\n‘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:\nMember State\nPopulation(× 1 000)\nGermany\n82 314,9\nFrance\n63 392,1\nUnited Kingdom\n60 823,8\nItaly\n59 131,3\nSpain\n44 474,6\nPoland\n38 125,5\nRomania\n21 565,1\nNetherlands\n16 358\nGreece\n11 171,7\nPortugal\n10 599,1\nBelgium\n10 584,5\nCzech Republic\n10 287,2\nHungary\n10 066,1\nSweden\n9 113,2\nAustria\n8 298,9\nBulgaria\n7 679,3\nDenmark\n5 447,1\nSlovakia\n5 393,6\nFinland\n5 276,9\nIreland\n4 319,4\nLithuania\n3 384,9\nLatvia\n2 281,3\nSlovenia\n2 010,3\nEstonia\n1 342,4\nCyprus\n778,7\nLuxembourg\n476,2\nMalta\n407,8\nTotal\n495 103,9\nThreshold (62 %)\n306 964,4\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/2007/881/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:58.628741+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."
}