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Council Decision of 14 January 2013 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure (2013/37/EU)

EU Decision 2013/37 · Adopted 14 January 2013 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Council Decision

of 14 January 2013

amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure

(2013/37/EU)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

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

Whereas:

(1)

Article 3(3), first and fourth subparagraphs, of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions annexed to the Treaties provide that, until 31 October 2014, when an act is to be adopted by the Council by a qualified majority, and if a member of the Council so requests, it must be verified that the Member States constituting the qualified majority represent at least 62 % of the total population of the Union.

(2)

That percentage is calculated according to the population figures set out in Article 1 of Annex III to the Council’s Rules of Procedure (hereinafter ‘Rules of Procedure’).

(3)

Article 2(2) of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure provides that, with effect from 1 January each year, the Council, in accordance with the data available to the Statistical Office of the European Union on 30 September of the preceding year, must amend the figures set out in Article 1 of that Annex.

(4)

The Rules of Procedure should therefore be amended accordingly for 2013,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

Council Decision 2009/937/EU of 1 December 2009 adopting the Council’s Rules of Procedure (OJ L 325, 11.12.2009, p. 35).

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 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 2013 to 31 December 2013 shall be as follows:

Member StatePopulation(× 1 000)
Germany81 843,7
France65 397,9
United Kingdom62 989,6
Italy60 820,8
Spain46 196,3
Poland38 538,4
Romania21 355,8
Netherlands16 730,3
Greece11 290,9
Belgium11 041,3
Portugal10 541,8
Czech Republic10 505,4
Hungary9 957,7
Sweden9 482,9
Austria8 443,0
Bulgaria7 327,2
Denmark5 580,5
Slovakia5 404,3
Finland5 401,3
Ireland4 582,8
Lithuania3 007,8
Slovenia2 055,5
Latvia2 041,8
Estonia1 339,7
Cyprus862,0
Luxembourg524,9
Malta416,1
Total503 679,7
Threshold (62 %)312 281,4

’

2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2013.

Signature

Done at Brussels, 14 January 2013.

For the Council

The President

E. Gilmore