If the members of the Council qualifying their abstention in this way represent at least one third of the Member States comprising at least one third of the population of the Union, the decision shall not be adopted.
Má ionadaíonn líon na gcomhaltaí den Chomhairle a dhéanann a staonadh ó vótáil a cháiliú amhlaidh trian ar a laghad de na Ballstáit a chuimsíonn trian ar a laghad de dhaonra an Aontais, ní ghlacfar an cinneadh.