{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-2353/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-2353/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2016/2353",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2016/2353 of 8 December 2016 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-2353",
  "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 and Article 238(2) and (3) TFEU, as well as, until 31 March 2017, 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 2017 to 31 December 2017 shall be as follows:\nMember State\nPopulation\nPercentage of the population of the Union\nGermany\n82 064 489\n16,06 %\nFrance\n66 661 621\n13,05 %\nUnited Kingdom\n65 341 183\n12,79 %\nItaly\n61 302 519\n12,00 %\nSpain\n46 438 422\n9,09 %\nPoland\n37 967 209\n7,43 %\nRomania\n19 759 968\n3,87 %\nNetherlands\n17 235 349\n3,37 %\nBelgium\n11 289 853\n2,21 %\nGreece\n10 793 526\n2,11 %\nCzech Republic\n10 445 783\n2,04 %\nPortugal\n10 341 330\n2,02 %\nSweden\n9 998 000\n1,96 %\nHungary\n9 830 485\n1,92 %\nAustria\n8 711 500\n1,71 %\nBulgaria\n7 153 784\n1,40 %\nDenmark\n5 700 917\n1,12 %\nFinland\n5 465 408\n1,07 %\nSlovakia\n5 407 910\n1,06 %\nIreland\n4 664 156\n0,91 %\nCroatia\n4 190 669\n0,82 %\nLithuania\n2 888 558\n0,57 %\nSlovenia\n2 064 188\n0,40 %\nLatvia\n1 968 957\n0,39 %\nEstonia\n1 315 944\n0,26 %\nCyprus\n848 319\n0,17 %\nLuxembourg\n576 249\n0,11 %\nMalta\n434 403\n0,09 %\nEU 28\n510 860 699\nThreshold (62 %)\n316 733 634\nThreshold (65 %)\n332 059 455’.",
  "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/2016/2353/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:40.406935+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."
}