Translation of "european index consumer prices " (English → French) :

‘Harmonised indices of consumer prices at constant tax rates’ means indices that measure changes in consumer prices without the impact of changes in rates of taxes on products over the same period of time’.

Fees and charges provided for under this Regulation should be adapted to take account of inflation and for that purpose the European Index of Consumer Prices published by Eurostat pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 of 23 October 1995 concerning harmonised indices of consumer prices should be used.

12. Asks applicants for accession to pay particular attention to consumer protection during the changeover phase; asks them also to implement legislation requiring mandatory dual-pricing displays for a sufficiently long duration and to establish effective procedures for protecting consumers against unjustified price increases during the changeover phase or longer; asks for clear public campaigns which point out that the only weapon against unjustified price increases is consumer power to choose their suppliers freely; points out that special attention should be paid to price setting in public or private monopoly situations and by publ ...[+++]ic authorities; invites them to put into place for a period of at least two years an observatory responsible for publishing data on the evolution of about ten particularly significant consumer prices;

The compilation of the Monetary Union index of consumer prices (MUICP) and the European index of consumer prices (EICP) requires a harmonised concept for the temporal coverage of the HICPs.

Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 requires that the HICP be based on the prices of goods and services available for purchase in the economic territory of the Member State for the purposes of directly satisfying consumer needs; whereas prices not actually paid by consumers in such purchases or opportunity costs or interest payments are not appropriate for international comparisons of consumer price inflation;

Whereas the coverage of the existing consumer price indices produced by the Member States, practices followed for the inclusion of newly significant goods and services, procedures for adjusting prices for quality changes of the items priced, methods of combining prices to form price indices for elementary aggregates, or sampling methods and practices for obtaining prices differ between Member States to the extent that the resulting consumer price indices produced ...[+++]by the Member States fail to meet the comparability requirement necessary for the production of the HICP;