|- | Withdrawal of a member state || (new item) || QMV || 49a TEU |- | General economic interest services || Unanimity || QMV || 16 TFEU |- | Diplomatic and consular protection || Unanimity || QMV || 20 TFEU |- | Citizens initiative regulations || Unanimity || QMV || 21 TFEU |- | Intellectual property || Unanimity || QMV || 97a TFEU |- | Eurozone external representation || Unanimity || QMV || 115c TFEU |- | Sport || Unanimity || QMV || 149 TFEU |- | Space || Unanimity || QMV || 172a TFEU |- | Energy || Unanimity || QMV || 176a TFEU |- | Tourism || Unanimity || QMV || 176b TFEU |- | Civil protection || Unanimity || QMV || 176c TFEU |- | Administrative cooperation || Unanimity || QMV || 176d TFEU |- | Emergency international aid || Unanimity || QMV || 188i TFEU |- | Humanitarian aid || Unanimity || QMV || 188j TFEU |- | Response to natural disasters or terrorism || (new item)|| QMV || 188R§3 TFEU |- | Economic and Social Committee || QMV || QMV || 256a TFEU |- | Committee of the Regions || Unanimity || QMV || 256a TFEU |- | Economic and Social Committee || Unanimity || QMV || 256a TFEU |- | The EU budget || Unanimity || QMV || 269 TFEU |- Past qualified majority voting rules (1958–2014) This section presents the former qualified majority voting systems employed in the Council of the European Union, and its predecessor institutions. While some policy areas require unanimity among Council members, for selected policy areas qualified majority voting has existed right from the start. All major treaties have shifted some policy areas from unanimity to qualified majority voting. Whenever the community was enlarged, voting weights for new members were defined and thresholds re-adjusted by accession treaties. After its inception in 1958, the most notable changes to the voting system occurred: with the 1973 enlargement, when the number of votes for the largest member states was increased from 4 to 10, with the Treaty of Nice, when the maximum number of votes was increased to 29, thresholds became defined in terms of percentages, and a direct population-dependent condition was introduced, with the Treaty of Lisbon, when the concept of votes was abandoned in favour of a "double majority" depending only on the number of states and the population