RAPID REPORTS Energy and industry 1993 D 6 ISSN 1016-0191 Extract from Industrial Trends - March 1993' Industrial production continues to decrease Industrial production trends in the European Com stries in brackets): Denmark 5.9% (5.0%); Greece munity (EUR 12) up to December 1992 show that the 1.9% (8.7%); Italy 1.7% (3.8%); Belgium 0.8% recession is by no means over. The slump is conti (estimated) (+4.3%); Germany (West) 2.9% (3.4%); nuing. Production has continued to fall in all sec France 1.4% (2.7%); Netherlands 1.2% (3.6%); tors of manufacturing industry. In December the United Kingdom +0.9% (+0.5%); Ireland +4.8% (estiindex of industrial production (NACE 1 4), adjusted mated) (+8.0%). Production is therefore falling in for the number of working days, stood at 107.6 very many Member States. (1985=100) for In the USA, industrial production sawa slight increathe Communi se of 0.9% (rate of change for the past three months Annual Growth Rate 1992/1991 ty as a whole, compared with the previous three months); in Japan Production Index EURI 2 3.6% down on it fell slightly (an estimated 0.2%). the previous -1.1%<^$H| tool - Production of the various types of goods was as December's Up^l.7% follows in the European Community (rate of change figure. For the paper Ind. -for the past three months compared with the previous capital goods Β|ικ chemical lad. - three months): industries, the -0.1%^ food ind.