{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2209/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2209/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2019/2209",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2019/2209 of 16 December 2019 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2209",
  "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 2020 until the date on which the Treaties cease to apply to the United Kingdom or until 31 December 2020, at the latest, shall be as follows:\nMember State\nPopulation\nPercentage of the population of the Union (%)\nGermany\n82 940 663\n16,13\nFrance\n67 028 048\n13,04\nUnited Kingdom\n66 647 112\n12,96\nItaly\n61 068 437\n11,88\nSpain\n46 934 632\n9,13\nPoland\n37 972 812\n7,39\nRomania\n19 405 156\n3,77\nNetherlands\n17 423 013\n3,39\nBelgium\n11 467 923\n2,23\nGreece\n10 722 287\n2,09\nCzechia\n10 528 984\n2,05\nPortugal\n10 276 617\n2,00\nSweden\n10 243 000\n1,99\nHungary\n9 772 756\n1,90\nAustria\n8 842 000\n1,72\nBulgaria\n7 000 039\n1,36\nDenmark\n5 799 763\n1,13\nFinland\n5 512 119\n1,07\nSlovakia\n5 450 421\n1,06\nIreland\n4 904 240\n0,95\nCroatia\n4 076 246\n0,79\nLithuania\n2 794 184\n0,54\nSlovenia\n2 080 908\n0,40\nLatvia\n1 919 968\n0,37\nEstonia\n1 324 820\n0,26\nCyprus\n875 898\n0,17\nLuxembourg\n612 179\n0,12\nMalta\n493 559\n0,10\nEU 28\n514 117 784\nThreshold (65 %)\n334 176 560\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 2020, shall be as follows:\nMember State\nPopulation\nPercentage of the population of the Union (%)\nGermany\n82 940 663\n18,54\nFrance\n67 028 048\n14,98\nItaly\n61 068 437\n13,65\nSpain\n46 934 632\n10,49\nPoland\n37 972 812\n8,49\nRomania\n19 405 156\n4,34\nNetherlands\n17 423 013\n3,89\nBelgium\n11 467 923\n2,56\nGreece\n10 722 287\n2,40\nCzechia\n10 528 984\n2,35\nPortugal\n10 276 617\n2,30\nSweden\n10 243 000\n2,29\nHungary\n9 772 756\n2,18\nAustria\n8 842 000\n1,98\nBulgaria\n7 000 039\n1,56\nDenmark\n5 799 763\n1,30\nFinland\n5 512 119\n1,23\nSlovakia\n5 450 421\n1,22\nIreland\n4 904 240\n1,10\nCroatia\n4 076 246\n0,91\nLithuania\n2 794 184\n0,62\nSlovenia\n2 080 908\n0,47\nLatvia\n1 919 968\n0,43\nEstonia\n1 324 820\n0,30\nCyprus\n875 898\n0,20\nLuxembourg\n612 179\n0,14\nMalta\n493 559\n0,11’.\nEU 27\n447 470 672\nThreshold (65 %)\n290 855 937",
  "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/2019/2209/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:27.156846+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."
}