{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-900/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-900/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2014/900",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 9 December 2014 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure (2014/900/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-900",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Annex III to the Rules of Procedure is replaced by the following:\nANNEX III\nFigures concerning the population of the Union and the population of each Member State for implementing the provisions concerning qualified majority voting in the Council\nFor the purposes of implementing Article 16(4) TEU, Article 238(2) and (3) TFEU and Article 3(2) of Protocol No 36, the population of the Union and the population of each Member State, as well as the percentage of each Member State's population in relation to the population of the Union, for the period from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015 shall be as follows:\nMember State\nPopulation (× 1 000)\nPercentage of the population of the Union\nGermany\n80 704,691\n15,91\nFrance\n66 076,909\n13,02\nUnited Kingdom\n64 105,654\n12,63\nItaly\n61 152,798\n12,05\nSpain\n46 507,76\n9,17\nPoland\n38 018,0\n7,49\nRomania\n19 942,642\n3,93\nNetherlands\n17 082,0\n3,37\nBelgium\n11 203,992\n2,21\nGreece\n10 992,783\n2,17\nPortugal\n10 427,301\n2,06\nCzech Republic\n10 398,697\n2,05\nHungary\n9 877,365\n1,95\nSweden\n9 644,864\n1,90\nAustria\n8 511,0\n1,68\nBulgaria\n7 245,677\n1,43\nDenmark\n5 621,607\n1,11\nFinland\n5 451,27\n1,07\nSlovakia\n5 400,598\n1,06\nIreland\n4 604,029\n0,91\nCroatia\n4 246,809\n0,84\nLithuania\n2 943,472\n0,58\nSlovenia\n2 061,085\n0,41\nLatvia\n2 001,468\n0,39\nEstonia\n1 315,819\n0,26\nCyprus\n858,000\n0,17\nLuxembourg\n549,680\n0,11\nMalta\n425,384\n0,08\nTotal\n507 371,354\nThreshold (62 %)\n314 570,239\nThreshold (65 %)\n329 791,38",
  "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/2014/900/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:14:32.788945+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."
}