22.12.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 338/47 DECISIONS COUNCIL DECISION of 14 December 2010 amending the Council’s Rules of Procedure (2010/795/EU) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, N Population ember State (x 1000) Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, Germany 81802.3 Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European France 64714,1 Union, and in particular Article 240(3) thereof, United Kingdom 62 008.0 Having regard to Article 2(2) of Annex III to the Council’s Rules Ttaly 60 340,3 1 of Procedure (1), Spain 45989,0 Whereas: Poland 381673 Romania 21 462,2 (1) Article 3(3), fourth subparagraph, of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions annexed to the Treaties Netherlands 16 575,0 provides that, until 31 October 2014, when an act is to be adopted by the Council by a qualified majority, Greece 113051 and if a member of the Council so requests, it shall be Beloium 10 8270 verified that the Member States constituting the qualified s i majority represent at least 62 % of the total population Portugal 10 637,7 of the Union calculated according to the population figures set out in Article 1 of Annex Il to the Czech Republic 10 506,8 Council’s Rules of Procedure (hereinafter ‘Rules of , Hungary 10 014,3 Procedure). Sweden 9 340,7 (2 Article 2(2) of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure - provides that, with effect from 1 January each year, the Austria 83753 Cou.nc-il, in agcordance with the data ava.ilable to the Bulgaria 75637 Statistical Office of the European Union on 30 September of the preceding year, amends the figures Denmark 55347 set out in Article 1 of that Annex. Slovakia 54249 (3)  The R}ﬂes of Procedure should therefore be amended Finland 53514 accordingly for 2011, Ireland 44679 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Lithuania 3329,0 Article 1 Latvia 22484 Article 1 of Annex III to the Rules of Procedure shall be Sloveni . ovenia 2047,0 replaced by the following: Estonia 1 340,1 ‘Article 1 Cyprus 803,1 For the purposes of implementing Article 16(5) of the TEU and Article 3(3) and (4) of the Protocol (No 36) on transi- Luxembourg 502,1 tional provisions, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011 Malta 413,0 shall be as follows: Toal 501 090.4 () Council Decision 2009/937[EU of 1 December 2009 adopting the Threshold (62 %) 310 676,1’ Council’s Rules of Procedure (O] L 325, 11.12.2009, p. 35).