BELGIAN FEBRUARY INDUSTRY OUTPUT DOWN ON YEAR AGO
  Belgian industrial production, excluding
  construction and adjusted for seasonal and calendar influences,
  was provisionally 0.6 pct lower in February than a year
  earlier, the National Statistics Office said.
      Output in February was, however, 5.9 pct higher than in
  January.
      A spokeswoman for the office said the production index,
  base 1980, rose to a provisional 108.8 in February from a
  provisional 102.7 in January, slightly revised from the 102.8
  originally estimated. In February last year the index stood at
  109.5.
  

