
Article 1 
Article 1 of Annex IIa to the Rules of Procedure shall be replaced by the following:
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Article 1 
For the purposes of implementing Article 205(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Community, Article 118(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and the third subparagraph of Article 23(2) and Article 34(3) of the Treaty on European Union, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2006 shall be as follows:
Member State Population(× 1 000)
Germany 82 500,8
France 62 370,8
United Kingdom 60 063,2
Italy 58 462,4
Spain 43 038,0
Poland 38 173,8
Netherlands 16 305,5
Greece 11 073,0
Portugal 10 529,3
Belgium 10 445,9
Czech Republic 10 220,6
Hungary 10 097,5
Sweden 9 011,4
Austria 8 206,5
Denmark 5 411,4
Slovakia 5 384,8
Finland 5 236,6
Ireland 4 109,2
Lithuania 3 425,3
Latvia 2 306,4
Slovenia 1 997,6
Estonia 1 347,0
Cyprus 749,2
Luxembourg 455,0
Malta 402,7
Total 461 324,0
Threshold (62 %) 286 020,9'
Article 2 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2006.
Done at Brussels, 23 January 2006.
For the Council
The President
J. PRÖLL