EUIPO writes; “This joint document, published by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) is based on figures provided by police, customs, and market surveillance authorities in 2022 and it shows the annual results for enforcement of IP rights by EU enforcers at the EU border and in the EU internal market respectively and aggregated. It reveals that approximately 86 million fake items were detained in the European Union in 2022 with their estimated value being over EUR 2 billion.”
Read the full report and executive summary here.