In the EU bloc, monthly inflation was 0.6%, the statistics office Eurostat said. The annual rate was 3.3% in September, up from 2.9% in August.
Romanian annual inflation came in at 3.5% in September, down from 4.3% a month earlier. The lowest annual rates were observed in Ireland (1.3%), Sweden (1.5%) and the Czech Republic (2.1%), and the highest in Estonia (5.4%) and Lithuania (4.7%).
The lowest 12-month averages up to September were registered in Ireland (0.6%), Sweden (1.6%), the Czech Republic and Slovenia (both 1.9%), and the highest in Romania (6.9%) and Estonia (5.2%).