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Document 32011D0900

    2011/900/EU: Odluka Vijeća od 19. prosinca 2011. o izmjeni Poslovnika Vijeća

    SL L 346, 30.12.2011, p. 17–18 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2011/900/oj

    30.12.2011   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    L 346/17


    COUNCIL DECISION

    of 19 December 2011

    amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure

    (2011/900/EU)

    THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

    Having regard to the Treaty on European Union,

    Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

    Having regard to Article 2(2) of Annex III to the Council’s Rules of Procedure (1),

    Whereas:

    (1)

    Article 3(3), first and fourth subparagraphs, of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions annexed to the Treaties provides that, until 31 October 2014, when an act is to be adopted by the Council by a qualified majority, and if a member of the Council so requests, it must be verified that the Member States constituting the qualified majority represent at least 62 % of the total population of the Union calculated according to the population figures set out in Article 1 of Annex III to the Council’s Rules of Procedure (hereinafter ‘Rules of Procedure’).

    (2)

    Article 2(2) of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure provides that, with effect from 1 January each year, the Council, in accordance with the data available to the Statistical Office of the European Union on 30 September of the preceding year, must amend the figures set out in Article 1 of that Annex.

    (3)

    The Rules of Procedure should therefore be amended accordingly for 2012,

    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

    Article 1

    Article 1 of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:

    ‘Article 1

    For the purposes of implementing Article 16(5) of the TEU and Article 3(3) and (4) of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions annexed to the Treaties, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012 shall be as follows:

    Member State

    Population

    (× 1 000 )

    Germany

    81 751,6

    France

    65 075,4

    United Kingdom

    62 435,7

    Italy

    60 626,4

    Spain

    46 152,9

    Poland

    38 200,0

    Romania

    21 413,8

    Netherlands

    16 655,8

    Greece

    11 325,9

    Belgium

    10 918,4

    Portugal

    10 637,0

    Czech Republic

    10 532,8

    Hungary

    9 985,7

    Sweden

    9 415,6

    Austria

    8 404,3

    Bulgaria

    7 504,9

    Denmark

    5 560,6

    Slovakia

    5 435,3

    Finland

    5 375,3

    Ireland

    4 480,9

    Lithuania

    3 244,6

    Latvia

    2 229,6

    Slovenia

    2 050,2

    Estonia

    1 340,2

    Cyprus

    804,4

    Luxembourg

    511,8

    Malta

    417,6

    Total

    502 486,7

    Threshold (62 %)

    311 541,8 ’

    Article 2

    This Decision shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

    It shall apply from 1 January 2012.

    Done at Brussels, 19 December 2011.

    For the Council

    The President

    M. KOROLEC


    (1)  Council Decision 2009/937/EU of 1 December 2009 adopting the Council’s Rules of Procedure (OJ L 325, 11.12.2009, p. 35).


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