Food prices rose 0.4% on the month in July, but non-food items cost 0.5% less and services cost 0.1% less.
Compared with July 2015, food prices were 1.25% higher, while non-food prices dropped 2.2% and the price of services declined 0.93%, the data showed.
Earlier this week, Romania’s central bank has revised its inflation forecast to -0.4% this year from a previous projection of 0.6%. For 2017, the central bank revised its inflation forecast to 2% from a previously expected 2.7%.