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the data.gov.lv registry lists CSB datasets as CC0 1.0" }, { "id": "csb_pci021m", "name": "Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia, PCI021m consumer price index, ECOICOP 04.4.4.1 charges for maintenance of multi-occupied buildings — INDEX, not a price", "url": "https://data.stat.gov.lv/pxweb/en/OSP_PUB/OSP_PUB__VEK__PC__PCI/PCI021m/", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-05T13:02:01Z", "upstream_published": "2026-09-08", "licence": "not verified: the stat.gov.lv terms page could not be retrieved by fetch (JS-rendered); the data.gov.lv registry lists CSB datasets as CC0 1.0" }, { "id": "ee_konkurentsiamet", "name": "Konkurentsiamet (Estonian Competition Authority) — national register of approved water and sewerage prices, one PDF with an as-of date, prices excluding VAT", "url": "https://www.konkurentsiamet.ee/sites/default/files/documents/2026-09/Koosk%C3%B5lastatud_m%C3%A4%C3%A4ratud%20veeteenuste%20hinnad%20seisuga%2021.09.2026.pdf", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-05T13:02:01Z", "upstream_published": "2026-09-21", "licence": "public register of a state authority" }, { "id": "ee_konkurentsiamet_archive", "name": "Konkurentsiamet water tariff register — 15 earlier editions of the same PDF (2019-12-20 to 2026-02-10), read from copies kept by the Internet Archive (web.archive.org); each edition is dated by what it states itself, prices excluding VAT", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/konkurentsiamet.ee/sites/default/files/*veeteenuste*hinnad*", "class": "B", "retrieved": "2026-10-05T13:02:01Z", "upstream_published": "2026-02-10", "licence": "archived copies of a public register of a state authority" }, { "id": "ee_evel_survey", "name": "Eesti Vee-ettevotete Liit (EVEL, the Estonian water utilities association) — its annual member survey 'VEEHINNA ANKEEDID KOOND', one XLSX per year: household water and sewerage prices per member undertaking, BOTH excluding and including VAT as published; an association's members, not the regulator's full register", "url": "https://evel.ee/teabepank/veeteenuste-hinnad/", "class": "B", "retrieved": "2026-10-05T13:02:01Z", "upstream_published": "2025-12-31", "licence": "not stated — permission requested" }, { "id": "lv_rigas_udens", "name": "SIA Rīgas ūdens — the utility's own published tariff page (tariff set by SPRK decision); one named utility, not a national statistic", "url": "https://www.rigasudens.lv/lv/pakalpojumu-veidi-un-tarifi", "class": "C", "retrieved": "2026-10-05T13:02:01Z", "upstream_published": "2025-12-01", "licence": "published tariff on the utility's own site; robots.txt permits this agent (checked 2026-09-03)" }, { "id": "lt_tar_vert", "name": "Register of Legal Acts of Lithuania (TAR), republished as open data — VERT decisions setting water and wastewater base prices, full act text, prices excluding VAT", "url": "https://data.gov.lt/datasets/gov/lrsk/teises_aktai", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-05T13:02:01Z", "upstream_published": "2026-07-25", "licence": "open data, get.data.gov.lt permits automated access" } ], "sources_evidence": "the fragment names no source for this figure; the module's whole roster is shown", "declared_gaps": [] } ] }, "unit": "EUR/m3", "note_keys": [ { "key": "communal.waste.units_differ", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.note.lv_survey_towns", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.note.lv_euro_conversion", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.note.ee_spread", "params": { "lo": "2.09", "hi": "10.70", "n": 61 } }, { "key": "communal.ee.pollution_group_i", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.note.ee_two_medians", "params": { "members": 42, "member_date": "2025-12-31", "member_value": "3.805", "register_value": "4.050", "register_n": 61, "register_date": "2026-09-21", "pct": -6.05 } }, { "key": "communal.note.ee_evel_vat_checked", "params": { "rate": "24", "dropped": 0 } }, { "key": "communal.note.ee_evel_history_pending", "params": { "first": "2007-07-01", "n": 30 } }, { "key": "communal.note.ee_archive_history", "params": { "n": 15, "first": "2019-12-20" } }, { "key": "communal.note.ee_vat_steps", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.note.lt_base_not_bill", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.note.lt_spread", "params": { "lo": "1.05", "hi": "5.25", "n": 51 } }, { "key": "communal.note.lt_earlier_acts_not_joined", "params": { "first": "2007-12-30", "last": "2014-12-04", "n": 142, "lit": 129, "nb": 88, "no_end": 130 } }, { "key": "communal.note.riga_future_tariff", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.note.no_national_waste_ee_lt", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.mgmt.lv_index_but_no_level", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.mgmt.lt_ceiling_caveats", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.fixed.not_addable", "params": {} }, { "key": "communal.note.series_span_by_country", "params": { "spans": "EE 17, 2019-12-20 – 2026-09-21 · LT 118, 2016-12-31 – 2026-09-30 · LV 260, 2005-01-31 – 2026-08-31" } }, { "key": "communal.note.point_dating_month_end", "params": { "countries": "LT, LV" } }, { "key": "communal.note.point_dating_source_as_of", "params": { "countries": "EE" } } ], "notes": [ "Four household services sit on this card and they are not measured the same way. Water and sewerage are per cubic metre in all three countries. Refuse collection is not: Latvia bills per cubic metre of refuse, Estonia per container emptying, Lithuania per square metre of dwelling per month.", "Latvian average prices are collected in Riga and nine other towns and weighted to a national figure. They are an average, not a count of all 42 municipalities.", "The Latvian series runs from January 2005 and crosses the 2014 currency change; the statistical office republished the earlier years in euro, so the conversion is theirs and not ours.", "Estonian approved prices run from 2.09 to 10.70 euro per cubic metre without VAT across 61 undertakings, so a national average would be no household's bill; the middle undertaking is shown with the full spread.", "Estonian sewerage prices are often split into pollution groups; a household is group I and that is the group shown.", "A second, independent source puts the Estonian middle lower: the water utilities' own association surveys its 42 members and their middle household price on 2025-12-31 was 3.805 euro per cubic metre without VAT, against 4.050 on the regulator's register of 61 undertakings on 2026-09-21. That is a -6.05% difference between two lists and two dates, not a price change: the association's list is smaller and its figure is eight months older.", "The association's file states both VAT bases itself; every row was checked against the VAT rate its own title names, and rows that did not match were left out rather than corrected.", "The same association has published this file every year back to 2007-07-01 — 30 earlier editions are listed here with their links, and none of them has been read into the series yet.", "The Estonian register is a snapshot with an as-of date and carries no history of its own. The earlier Estonian points are read from 15 earlier editions of the same register kept by the Internet Archive, the first dated 2019-12-20, each for the date it states; where no copy was kept there is no point, and none is filled in.", "Estonian figures carry VAT at the rate in force on each date: 20% to the end of 2023, 22% from January 2024 and 24% from July 2025. Part of the rise across those dates is tax, not tariff; the figure without VAT is published beside it.", "Lithuanian figures are the regulated base prices for the apartment customer category. The invoice adds the adjustment components set each year and a separate fixed monthly charge, so the base price is a floor rather than the bill.", "Lithuanian base prices for an apartment customer run from 1.05 to 5.25 euro per cubic metre without VAT across 51 undertakings.", "Lithuanian price decisions from 2007-12-30 to 2014-12-04 also exist in the register, 142 of them, and are not joined to this line. They come from before the 2015 rules: at least 129 of them are denominated in litas, at least 88 are not written as base prices at all, and 130 carry no end date. Joining them would be a different measurement under the same name.", "The Riga utility's own page also carries a tariff that only takes effect on 2027-01-01. The figure shown is the one in force today.", "Neither Estonia nor Lithuania publishes a national refuse price level, so those two countries carry no refuse price here — only the index, which has no currency.", "No country publishes a price for the building management fee. Latvia's statistical office collects it to build an index and publishes the index without an average level; we do the same.", "For Lithuania a municipal maximum management tariff can be published, and 15 councils have one on the register. It is a ceiling set without VAT while administrators charge with VAT, and it binds only buildings with a municipality-appointed administrator.", "A charge per cubic metre and a charge per month are not added together here, because doing so needs a stated assumption about how much water a household uses and no such assumption is made.", "History by country: EE 17, 2019-12-20 – 2026-09-21 · LT 118, 2016-12-31 – 2026-09-30 · LV 260, 2005-01-31 – 2026-08-31.", "Points for LT, LV sit on the last day of the month they describe.", "Points for EE carry the date the source itself states, which need not be a month end.", "fetch failed: IndexError", "fetch failed: IndexError", "fetch failed: IndexError", "fetch failed: IndexError", "fetch failed: IndexError", "fetch failed: HTTPError", "fetch failed: IndexError", "fetch failed: IndexError", "fetch failed: IndexError", "fetch failed: IndexError", "fetch failed: IndexError", "fetch failed: IndexError" ] }