Euro area annual inflation up 2.5% & EU25 rises 2.4%
15 Jun '06
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Concerning the detailed sub-indices, fuels for transport had the largest upward impact on the headline rate (+0.46 percentage points), followed by gas (+0.20) and heating oil (+0.19), while telecommunications (-0.18) and garments (-0.13) had the biggest downward impacts.
The main components with the highest monthly rates were food and transport (both 0.5 percent) and health (0.4 percent), and the lowest were communications (-0.5 percent), education and recreation and culture (both 0.1 percent).
In particular, fuels for transport (+0.07 percentage points) and fruit (+0.03) had the largest upward impacts, while air transport and telecommunications (-0.02 each) had the biggest downward impacts.