Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3159 of 2 September 2024 amending Regulation (EU) 2016/792 of the European Parliament and of the Council on harmonised indices of consumer prices and the house price index as regards the classification of consumption and the inclusion of games of chance

‘8 Member States shall not be required to produce the following sub-indices or parts of sub-indices of ECOICOP, either because they are not included in the household final monetary consumption expenditure or because the degree of methodological harmonisation is not yet sufficient: 02.3.Narcotics;12.2.Prostitution;12.5.1.Life insurance;12.6.1.FISIM. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 10 to modify the list set out in this paragraph in order to include games of chance in the HICP and the HICP-CT.’

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply to the transmission of harmonised indices of consumer prices (HICP) and harmonised indices of consumer prices at constant tax rates (HICP-CT) data to the Commission (Eurostat) from reference month January 2026.