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12.2.2013 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union
L
41/1
II
(Non-legislative acts)
REGULATIONS
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 119/2013
of 11 February 2013
amending Regulation (EC) No 2214/96 concerning harmonised indices of consumer prices (HICP):
transmission and dissemination of sub-indices of the HICP, as regards establishing harmonised
indices of consumer prices at constant tax rates
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(6) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
System Committee,
Union,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 of
23 October 1995 concerning harmonised indices of
Article 1
consumer prices ( 1 ), and in particular the third paragraph of
Regulation (EC) No 2214/96 is amended as follows:
Article 4 and Article 5(3) thereof,
(1) In Article 2, the following subparagraph is added:
Having regard to the opinion of the European Central Bank ( 2 ),
‘Harmonised indices of consumer prices at constant tax
Whereas:
rates’ means indices that measure changes in consumer
prices without the impact of changes in rates of taxes on
(1) By
virtue
of
Article
5(1)(b)
of
Regulation
(EC)
No
products over the same period of time.’;
2494/95, Member States are required to produce
harmonised indices of consumer prices (HICP).
(2) Article 3 is replaced by the following:
(2) Commission
Regulation
(EC)
No
2214/96
( 3 ) establishes
‘Article 3
the sub-indices of the HICP to be produced by the
Member States, and provided to and disseminated by
Production and provision of sub-indices
the Commission (Eurostat).
1. Member
States
shall
produce
and
provide
to
the
Commission (Eurostat) each month all sub-indices (Annex
(3) For
inflation
analysis
and
for
convergence
assessment
in
I) which have a weight accounting for more than one part
Member States, it is necessary to collect information on
in a thousand of the total expenditure covered by the HICP.
the impact of tax changes on inflation. To this end,
Together with the index for January each year, Member
HICPs should additionally be calculated on the basis of
States shall provide corresponding weighting information
constant tax rate prices instead of observed prices in the
to the Commission (Eurostat).
form of harmonised indices of consumer prices at
constant tax rates (HICP-CT).
2. In
addition,
Member
States
shall
produce
and
provide
to the Commission (Eurostat) each month the same sub-
(4) In
order
to
obtain
reliable
and
comparable
results
from
indices computed at constant tax rates (HICP-CT). The
all Member States, a common methodological framework
Commission (Eurostat), in close cooperation with the
for the compilation of HICP-CT should be established
Member States, shall establish guidelines that provide a
and maintained.
methodological framework for the computation of the
HICP-CT index and sub-indices. When duly justified, the
(5) The
principle
of
cost-effectiveness
has
been
taken
into
Commission (Eurostat) shall update the reference method
account in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation
ology, in accordance with procedural arrangements
(EC) No 2494/95.
approved by the European Statistical System Committee.
3. Indices
shall
be
provided
following
the
standards
and
( 1 ) OJ L 257, 27.10.1995, p. 1.
( 2 ) Opinion not yet published in the Official Journal.
procedures for provision of data and metadata as established
( 3 ) OJ L 296, 21.11.1996, p. 8.
by the Commission (Eurostat).’

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Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official
Journal of the European Union.
It shall take effect with the index for January 2013.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 11 February 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO

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