administered pricesmeans prices that are either directly set or influenced to a significant extent by the government;
consumer pricesmeans the purchase prices paid by households to purchase individual products by means of monetary transactions;
economic territory of the Member Statemeans the economic territory as referred to in paragraph 2.05 of Annex A to ESA 2010, with the exception that the extraterritorial enclaves situated within the boundaries of the Member State are included and the territorial enclaves situated in the rest of the world are excluded;
flash estimate of the HICPmeans an early estimate of the HICP provided by Member States whose currency is the euro that may be based on provisional information and, if necessary, appropriate modelling;
harmonised indicesmeans the HICP, the HICP-CT, the OOH price index and the HPI;
HICPmeans the comparable index of consumer prices produced by each Member State;
house pricesmeans the transaction prices of dwellings purchased by households;
householdmeans a household as referred to in points (a) and (b) of paragraph 2.119 of Annex A to ESA 2010, irrespective of nationality or residence status;
household final monetary consumption expendituremeans that part of final consumption expenditure incurred:
HPImeans the index that measures changes in the transaction prices of dwellings purchased by households;
index reference periodmeans the period for which the index is set to 100 index points;
Laspeyres-type indexmeans the price index that measures the average change in prices from the price reference period to a comparison period using expenditure shares from a period prior to the price reference period, and where the expenditure shares are adjusted to reflect the prices of the price reference period.
price reference periodmeans the period to which the price of the comparison period is compared;
productsmeans goods and services as defined in paragraph 3.01 of Annex A to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘ESA 2010’);
purchase pricesmeans the prices actually paid by purchasers for products, including any taxes less subsidies on the products, after the deduction of discounts from standard prices or charges, excluding interest or services charges added under credit arrangements and any extra charges incurred as a result of failing to pay within the period specified at the time of purchase;
significant change in the production methodmeans a change that is estimated to affect the annual rate of change of a given harmonised index or part thereof in any period by more than:
sub-index of the HICP or the HICP-CTmeans the price index for any category of the European classification of individual consumption according to purpose (ECOICOP) as set out in Annex I;
tax ratemeans a tax parameter and may be a certain percentage of the price or an absolute tax amount levied on a physical unit;