{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-2393/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-2393/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2015/2393",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/2393 of 8 December 2015 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-2393",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Annex III to the Rules of Procedure is replaced by the following:\n‘ANNEX 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 2016 to 31 December 2016 shall be as follows:\nMember State\nPopulation\nPercentage of the population of the Union\nGermany\n81 089 331\n15,93\nFrance\n66 352 469\n13,04\nUnited Kingdom\n64 767 115\n12,73\nItaly\n61 438 480\n12,07\nSpain\n46 439 864\n9,12\nPoland\n38 005 614\n7,47\nRomania\n19 861 408\n3,90\nNetherlands\n17 155 169\n3,37\nBelgium\n11 258 434\n2,21\nGreece\n10 846 979\n2,13\nCzech Republic\n10 419 743\n2,05\nPortugal\n10 374 822\n2,04\nHungary\n9 855 571\n1,94\nSweden\n9 790 000\n1,92\nAustria\n8 581 500\n1,69\nBulgaria\n7 202 198\n1,42\nDenmark\n5 653 357\n1,11\nFinland\n5 471 753\n1,08\nSlovakia\n5 403 134\n1,06\nIreland\n4 625 885\n0,91\nCroatia\n4 225 316\n0,83\nLithuania\n2 921 262\n0,57\nSlovenia\n2 062 874\n0,41\nLatvia\n1 986 096\n0,39\nEstonia\n1 313 271\n0,26\nCyprus\n847 008\n0,17\nLuxembourg\n562 958\n0,11\nMalta\n429 344\n0,08\nTotal\n508 940 955\nThreshold (62 %)\n315 543 392\nThreshold (65 %)\n330 811 621’.",
  "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/2015/2393/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:14:07.461726+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."
}