Consumer price indices CPI: approximation

The European Parliament approved the proposal for a regulation with the following amendments: - in respect of commitology, Parliament made reference to the interinstitutional "modus vivendi" in a new recital. It also asked to be included at parity with the Council in the measures to be taken on the basis of the regulation, in cases where the statistical programme committee expressed an opinion against the measures proposed by the Commission; - the Commission was called on to ensure total transparency in respect of the consequences which the addition or removal of elements of the harmonized system of consumer price indices might have on national price indices. Parliament also pointed out that while it was willing to accept the legal basis of the proposed Article 213, it would oppose any attempt to base this regulation on Article 235, and that in this case it would call for Article 100 A to be applied. �