
Article 1 
Article 1 of Annex III 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 EC Treaty, Article 118(4) of the Euratom Treaty, and the third subparagraph of Article 23(2) and Article 34(3) of the EU Treaty, the total population of each Member State for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2007 shall be as follows:
Member State Population(× 1 000)
Germany 82 438,0
France 62 886,2
United Kingdom 60 421,9
Italy 58 751,7
Spain 43 758,3
Poland 38 157,1
Romania 21 610,2
Netherlands 16 334,2
Greece 11 125,2
Portugal 10 569,6
Belgium 10 511,4
Czech Republic 10 251,1
Hungary 10 076,6
Sweden 9 047,8
Austria 8 265,9
Bulgaria 7 718,8
Denmark 5 427,5
Slovakia 5 389,2
Finland 5 255,6
Ireland 4 209,0
Lithuania 3 403,3
Latvia 2 294,6
Slovenia 2 003,4
Estonia 1 344,7
Cyprus 766,4
Luxembourg 459,5
Malta 404,3
Total 492 881,2
Threshold (62 %) 305 586,3'
Article 2 
This Decision shall take effect on 1 January 2007.
It shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Brussels, 1 January 2007.
For the Council
The President
F.-W. STEINMEIER