According to a report released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in October this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-27) increased by 0.5 percent as compared to September and was down 1.9 percent compared to October 2009. In September, the revised production figure dropped 1.2 percent compared to the previous month, according to the newly revised data.
In the EU, building construction in October rose 0.5 percent month on month and was down 1.3 percent compared to October 2009, while civil engineering rose by 0.5 percent over September and was down 4.9 percent year on year.
As compared to September, construction output in October rose in Slovakia and Sweden by 2 percent and in the Czech Republic and Germany by 1.3 percent, while month-on-month decreases of 6.6 percent, 1.3 percent and 1.3 percent respectively were registered in Portugal, Romania and Slovenia.