At the end of the transitional period provided for in C of article L. 2333-16, the maximum rates and the rates applied are increased each year in a proportion equal to the growth rate of the consumer price index excluding tobacco for the penultimate year. However, when the rates thus obtained are numbers with two decimal places, they are rounded to the nearest tenth of a euro, fractions of a euro less than €0.05 being disregarded and those equal to or greater than €0.05 being counted as €0.1.
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