{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-2076/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-2076/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/2076",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2018/2076 of 20 December 2018 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-2076",
  "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\n1.\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 2019 until the date on which the Treaties cease to apply to the United Kingdom or until 31 December 2019, at the latest, shall be as follows:\nMember State\nPopulation\nPercentage of the population of the Union (%)\nGermany\n82 719 022\n16,12\nFrance\n67 221 943\n13,10\nUnited Kingdom\n66 238 007\n12,90\nItaly\n61 166 142\n11,92\nSpain\n46 659 302\n9,09\nPoland\n37 976 687\n7,40\nRomania\n19 523 621\n3,80\nNetherlands\n17 321 110\n3,37\nBelgium\n11 413 058\n2,22\nGreece\n10 738 928\n2,09\nCzechia\n10 493 154\n2,04\nPortugal\n10 291 027\n2,00\nSweden\n10 157 000\n1,98\nHungary\n9 778 371\n1,91\nAustria\n8 802 000\n1,71\nBulgaria\n7 050 034\n1,37\nDenmark\n5 774 877\n1,13\nFinland\n5 501 930\n1,07\nSlovakia\n5 443 120\n1,06\nIreland\n4 830 392\n0,94\nCroatia\n4 105 493\n0,80\nLithuania\n2 808 901\n0,55\nSlovenia\n2 066 880\n0,40\nLatvia\n1 934 379\n0,38\nEstonia\n1 319 133\n0,26\nCyprus\n864 236\n0,17\nLuxembourg\n600 124\n0,12\nMalta\n475 701\n0,09\nEU-28\n513 274 572\nThreshold (65 %)\n333 628 472\n2.\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 the day following that on which the Treaties cease to apply to the United Kingdom to 31 December 2019, shall be as follows:\nMember State\nPopulation\nPercentage of the population of the Union (%)\nGermany\n82 719 022\n18,50\nFrance\n67 221 943\n15,04\nItaly\n61 166 142\n13,68\nSpain\n46 659 302\n10,44\nPoland\n37 976 687\n8,50\nRomania\n19 523 621\n4,37\nNetherlands\n17 321 110\n3,87\nBelgium\n11 413 058\n2,55\nGreece\n10 738 928\n2,40\nCzechia\n10 493 154\n2,35\nPortugal\n10 291 027\n2,30\nSweden\n10 157 000\n2,27\nHungary\n9 778 371\n2,19\nAustria\n8 802 000\n1,97\nBulgaria\n7 050 034\n1,58\nDenmark\n5 774 877\n1,29\nFinland\n5 501 930\n1,23\nSlovakia\n5 443 120\n1,22\nIreland\n4 830 392\n1,08\nCroatia\n4 105 493\n0,92\nLithuania\n2 808 901\n0,59\nSlovenia\n2 066 880\n0,46\nLatvia\n1 934 379\n0,43\nEstonia\n1 319 133\n0,30\nCyprus\n864 236\n0,19\nLuxembourg\n600 124\n0,13\nMalta\n475 701\n0,11\nEU-27\n447 036 565\nThreshold (65 %)\n290 573 768\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/2018/2076/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:53.119437+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."
}