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Compendium


The pdf Compendium of HICP reference documents is a Working document divided into three sections: General references, Legislation and Guidelines.
  • The first regroups two Reports to the Council giving an overview of the harmonisation process up to 1998 and up to 2000, respectively, and a document on the computation of the HICP that includes calculation formula, weightings, etc.
  • The second section includes the collection of HICP regulations adopted up to 2001
  • And the third section some guidelines.

The Compendium is available in English, French and German. Texts of section two 'Legislation', including texts adopted after 2001, and the Reports to the Council included in section one, can be found in other EC languages on EUR-Lex website. See under 'Legislation'.
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Last update 25.04.2009