The European Union’s average index was unchanged on the month, the statistics office Eurostat said.

The highest increases in the total index were observed in Latvia (+1.3%), Cyprus and Romania (both +0.6%) and Slovenia (+0.4%). The largest decreases were recorded in Ireland (-1.2%), Denmark, Hungary and the Netherlands (-0.7% each).

In annual terms, Romanian industrial prices rose 8.3% in June, while EU’s average growth was 6.9%.

The biggest annual increases were registered in the United Kingdom (+12.7%), Denmark (+10.6%) and Bulgaria (+10.1%), and the smallest in Malta (+0.8%), Hungary and Sweden (both +1.5%).

According to Romanian official data released earlier Tuesday, industrial producer prices rose 0.7% in June from a month earlier, and were up 8.4% compared with the same month of 2010.