The European Union’s average index was up 7% on the year, the statistics office Eurostat said.
The highest increases in the total index were observed in the United Kingdom (+12.6%), Lithuania (+10.7%), Latvia (+9%) and Romania, and the smallest in Malta and Sweden (both +1%) and Slovakia (+2%).
In monthly terms, Romanian industrial prices inched up 0.8% in July, while EU’s average growth was 0.4%.
The largest monthly increases were registered in Cyprus (+2%), Lithuania (+1.4%) and Hungary (+1.2%). The largest decreases were recorded in Denmark (-0.8%), Belgium (-0.4%) and Sweden (-0.3%).
According to Romanian official data released earlier Friday, industrial producer prices rose 1% in July from a month earlier and were up 9.3% compared with the same month of 2010.