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Annual Commission report on EU Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Author: Taxation and Customs Union
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Publisher European Commission
Publication date 22 July 2010
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Publication synopsis Statistics of customs interceptions of articles suspected of infringing intellectual property rights (IPR), such as trademarks, copyrights or patents are published yearly by the European Commission. The statistics published on 22 July 2010 by the European Commission show that customs registered over 43,500 cases of detentions of goods suspected of infringing an IPR at the EU's external border. The results show that cooperation between customs, industry and the EU’s trading partners is critically important for ensuring the highest level of protection for industry and consumers. Cigarettes, labels and tags and medicines are the main categories of goods detained. Counterfeited products for daily use, posing a potential danger to citizens’ health account for 18% of all detentions (i.e. suspected trademark infringements of food and beverages, body care items, medicines, electrical household goods and toys). The number of articles detained decreased in 2009 to around 118 million articles, as a result of the overall downturn in trade last year. The main difference compared to the previous year concerns a significantly lower level of interceptions involving DVDs/CDs.

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