2014/692/EU, Euratom: Council Decision of 29 September 2014 amending the Council's Rules of Procedure

‘5 Where a decision is to be adopted by the Council acting by qualified majority, 65 % of the population of the Union or, where not all Member States participate in voting, of the population of the participating Member States, and the minimum number of Council members representing more than 35 % of the population of the participating Member States shall be calculated in accordance with the population figures set out in Annex III. These figures shall also apply between 1 November 2014 and 31 March 2017 where, in accordance with Article 3(2) of Protocol No 36 on transitional measures, annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, a member of the Council requests that an act be adopted in accordance with the qualified majority as defined in paragraph 3 of that Article and a member of the Council requests that it be verified that the Member States comprising the qualified majority represent at least 62 % of the total population of the Union.’

‘6 With effect from 1 January each year, the Council shall, in accordance with the data available to the Statistical Office of the European Union on 30 September of the preceding year, amend the figures set out in Annex III. That Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.’

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 November 2014.