Legislation in force

The basic act providing for the compilation of the harmonised indices of consumer prices (HICP) is the  European Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) 2016/792 of 11 May 2016.

The basic act is implemented by Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/1148 of 31 July 2020.

Together, the two regulations consolidate and modernise the acts listed below under ‘Repealed legislation’.

Commission reports

• Report on the suitability of owner-occupied housing for integration in the HICP (COM/2018/768)
• Report on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts (COM/2020/354)
• Report evaluating the main findings of HICP pilot studies (COM/2020/810) 

Repealed legislation

• Framework regulation (Council Regulation 2494/1995)
• Initial implementing measures (1749/1996)
• Sub-indices (2214/1996)
• Weights (2454/1997)
• Coverage of goods and services (1687/1998)
• Geographic and population coverage (1688/1998)
• Treatment of tariffs (2646/1998)
• Treatment of insurance (1617/1999)
• Revised sub-indices (1749/1999)
• Treatment of products in the health, education and social protection sectors (2166/1999)
• Timing of entering purchaser prices (2601/2000)
• Treatment of price reductions (2602/2000)
• Treatment of service charges (1920/2001)
• Minimum standards for revisions (1921/2001)
• Common index reference period (1708/2005)
• Temporal coverage of price collection (701/2006)
• Sampling (1334/2007)
• Seasonal products (330/2009)
• Weights (1114/2010)
• Owner-occupied housing (93/2013)
• HICP at constant taxes (HICP-CT) (119/2013)
• Common index reference period (2015/2010)