{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-2461/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-2461/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2017/2461",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/2461 of 12 December 2017 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-2461",
  "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, 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 2018 to 31 December 2018 shall be as follows:\nMember State\nPopulation\nPercentage of the population of the Union (%)\nGermany\n82 437 641\n16,10\nFrance\n67 024 633\n13,09\nUnited Kingdom\n65 808 573\n12,85\nItaly\n61 219 113\n11,95\nSpain\n46 528 966\n9,08\nPoland\n37 972 964\n7,41\nRomania\n19 638 309\n3,83\nNetherlands\n17 220 721\n3,36\nBelgium\n11 365 834\n2,22\nGreece\n10 757 293\n2,10\nCzech Republic\n10 467 628\n2,04\nPortugal\n10 309 573\n2,01\nSweden\n10 080 000\n1,97\nHungary\n9 797 561\n1,91\nAustria\n8 752 500\n1,71\nBulgaria\n7 101 859\n1,39\nDenmark\n5 743 947\n1,12\nFinland\n5 499 447\n1,07\nSlovakia\n5 435 343\n1,06\nIreland\n4 774 833\n0,93\nCroatia\n4 154 213\n0,81\nLithuania\n2 847 904\n0,56\nSlovenia\n2 065 895\n0,40\nLatvia\n1 950 116\n0,38\nEstonia\n1 315 635\n0,26\nCyprus\n854 802\n0,17\nLuxembourg\n589 370\n0,12\nMalta\n440 433\n0,09\nEU 28\n512 155 106\nThreshold (65 %)\n332 900 819\n’.",
  "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/2017/2461/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:14.880414+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."
}