{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-900/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-900/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2011/900",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 19 December 2011 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure (2011/900/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-900",
  "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 16(5) of the TEU and Article 3(3) and (4) of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions annexed to the Treaties, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012 shall be as follows:\nMember State\nPopulation(× 1 000)\nGermany\n81 751,6\nFrance\n65 075,4\nUnited Kingdom\n62 435,7\nItaly\n60 626,4\nSpain\n46 152,9\nPoland\n38 200,0\nRomania\n21 413,8\nNetherlands\n16 655,8\nGreece\n11 325,9\nBelgium\n10 918,4\nPortugal\n10 637,0\nCzech Republic\n10 532,8\nHungary\n9 985,7\nSweden\n9 415,6\nAustria\n8 404,3\nBulgaria\n7 504,9\nDenmark\n5 560,6\nSlovakia\n5 435,3\nFinland\n5 375,3\nIreland\n4 480,9\nLithuania\n3 244,6\nLatvia\n2 229,6\nSlovenia\n2 050,2\nEstonia\n1 340,2\nCyprus\n804,4\nLuxembourg\n511,8\nMalta\n417,6\nTotal\n502 486,7\nThreshold (62 %)\n311 541,8\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/2011/900/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:34.710158+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."
}