{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-945/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-945/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2008/945",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 8 December 2008 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure (2008/945/EC, Euratom)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-945",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Annex III to the Rules of Procedure, Article 1 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 2009 shall be as follows:\nMember State\nPopulation(× 1 000)\nGermany\n82 217,8\nFrance\n63 753,1\nUnited Kingdom\n61 224,1\nItaly\n59 619,3\nSpain\n45 283,3\nPoland\n38 115,6\nRomania\n21 528,6\nNetherlands\n16 405,4\nGreece\n11 213,8\nBelgium\n10 666,9\nPortugal\n10 617,6\nCzech Republic\n10 381,1\nHungary\n10 045,4\nSweden\n9 182,9\nAustria\n8 331,9\nBulgaria\n7 640,2\nDenmark\n5 475,8\nSlovakia\n5 401,0\nFinland\n5 300,5\nIreland\n4 401,3\nLithuania\n3 366,4\nLatvia\n2 270,9\nSlovenia\n2 025,9\nEstonia\n1 340,9\nCyprus\n789,3\nLuxembourg\n483,8\nMalta\n410,3\nTotal\n497 493,1\nThreshold (62 %)\n308 445,7\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/2008/945/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:37.812990+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."
}