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Council Decision of 10 December 2013 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure (2013/746/EU)

EU Decision 2013/746 · Adopted 10 December 2013 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Council Decision

of 10 December 2013

amending the Council's Rules of Procedure

(2013/746/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)

The first and fourth subparagraphs of Article 3(3) of Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions, annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, 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 (the ‘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 the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 October 2014,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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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 Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 October 2014 shall be as follows:

Member StatePopulation(× 1 000)
Germany80 523,7
France65 633,2
United Kingdom63 730,1
Italy59 685,2
Spain46 704,3
Poland38 533,3
Romania20 057,5
Netherlands16 779,6
Belgium11 161,6
Greece11 062,5
Czech Republic10 516,1
Portugal10 487,3
Hungary9 908,8
Sweden9 555,9
Austria8 451,9
Bulgaria7 284,6
Denmark5 602,6
Finland5 426,7
Slovakia5 410,8
Ireland4 591,1
Croatia4 262,1
Lithuania2 971,9
Slovenia2 058,8
Latvia2 023,8
Estonia1 324,8
Cyprus865,9
Luxembourg537,0
Malta421,4
Total505 572,5
Threshold (62 %)313 455,0

’.

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 2014.

Signature

Done at Brussels, 10 December 2013.

For the Council

The President

R. Šadžius