
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 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 2013 to 31 December 2013 shall be as follows:
Member State Population(× 1 000)
Germany 81 843,7
France 65 397,9
United Kingdom 62 989,6
Italy 60 820,8
Spain 46 196,3
Poland 38 538,4
Romania 21 355,8
Netherlands 16 730,3
Greece 11 290,9
Belgium 11 041,3
Portugal 10 541,8
Czech Republic 10 505,4
Hungary 9 957,7
Sweden 9 482,9
Austria 8 443,0
Bulgaria 7 327,2
Denmark 5 580,5
Slovakia 5 404,3
Finland 5 401,3
Ireland 4 582,8
Lithuania 3 007,8
Slovenia 2 055,5
Latvia 2 041,8
Estonia 1 339,7
Cyprus 862,0
Luxembourg 524,9
Malta 416,1
Total 503 679,7
Threshold (62 %) 312 281,4'
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 2013.
Done at Brussels, 14 January 2013.
For the Council
The President
E. GILMORE