Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP)

Selection of technical or informative News releases regarding the HICP:

• Methodology of the euro area Flash Estimates - Launch
  November 2001 (NR 113/2001)
• Extended coverage of the euro area Flash Estimate
  April 2006 (NR 53/2006)

• Euro changeover and inflation in Estonia
  May 2011
• Euro changeover and inflation in Slovakia
  March 2009
• Euro changeover and inflation in Cyprus and Malta
  April 2008
• Information note on euro changeover and inflation in Slovenia
  March 2007

Euro changeover effect (Annex, page 5):

• Study 4 - June 2003
• Study 3 - July 2002
• Study 2 - May 2002
• Study 1 - February 2002

• Implementation of weights regulation:
  
   Information note and impacts on the HICP 2012
         Last update: 16 May 2012 (11h00 CET)
  
  

• Implementation of seasonal products regulation:
  
   Information note and impacts on the HICP 2011
         Last update: 22 May 2012
  
  Impact on the HICP for January 2011
  February 2011 
  
• New Reference Year 2005=100 for the HICP
  November 2005 (News Release 146/2005)
• Annex on developments in the HICP (namely inclusion of Greece in the euro area)
  February 2001 (NR 24/2001, page 4)
• Extended coverage and earlier release dates for the HICP
  February 2000 (Memo 2/2000)
• Increased coverage of the Harmonised Inflation Index
  July 1998 (Memo IP/98/676)

• New Monetary Union Index of Consumer Prices
  May 1998 (Memo 8/98)
• Harmonising the way EU measures inflation
  March 1997 (NR 21/97)
• Annex on interim indices
  January 1997 (NR 1/97, page 3)
• Interim steps towards harmonised measurement of consumer prices
  February 1996 (NR 15/96)