On 17 December, the EU reported that, while this figure represents a €20 million increase in value compared to 2018, the number of detentions increased by over 30% in the same period. An annual report gives an overview of the work carried out by EU customs officials – responsible for the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) – at the EU’s external borders. Overall in 2019, Member State customs authorities made over 90,000 seizures of goods that infringed on intellectual property rights, consisting of almost 41 million individual items (an increase of 53 % compared to the previous year).
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_2401
https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/ipr_report_2020.5464_en_04.pdf
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