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(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 24 NOV - In the first half of 2020, average household electricity prices in the European Union decreased slightly compared with the first half of 2019 (€21.6 per 100 kWh), standing at €21.3 per 100 kW, Eurostat said today. Average gas prices in the EU were nearly stable and stood at €6.6 per 100 kWh in the first half of the year, the EU statistical office informed. Electricity prices fell in 16 EU Member States during the first half of 2020. Gas prices fell in 18 of the 24 EU Member States. According to Eurostat data, between the first half of 2019 and the first half of 2020, the largest decreases in household electricity prices were observed in the Netherlands (-31.0%), followed by Latvia (-12.8%), Slovenia (-11.4%), Sweden (-10.0%) and Estonia (-8.9%). Expressed in euro, average household electricity prices in the first half of 2020 were lowest in Bulgaria (€10.0 per 100 kWh), Hungary (€10.3) and Estonia (€12.4) and highest in Germany (€30.4), Denmark (€28.3) and Belgium (€27.9), Eurostat said. (ANSA).