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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8591

25 November 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/piracy
More and more "core consumption" goods pirated

Brussels, 24/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - European customs seized more than 85 million counterfeit articles in 2002 and 50 million I just the first half of 2003, according to the Commission's latest statistics on piracy. Confirming the upward trend of the last few years, the report states that more core consumption goods are being forged: food, medication, mobile telephones, batteries… There is less fraud in CDs, tapes and DVDs, and more in mobile telephones. Almost 66% of fraudulent goods...

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