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The chart shows the distribution of the share of types of products detained in total value of seized products, at the European Union border in 2020, based on the results of the EUIPO report "EU Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: Results at the EU Border and in the EU Internal Market 2020," published in December 2021. The results show that, in terms of value, the top three product categories account for 56.3% of total estimated value of the sized items and they are the same ones as in the last two years - watches, clothing and bags, wallets and purses.

The chart presents the distribution of posts containg anti-semitic content across various social media platforms, based on the results of the European Commission "The rise of anti-semitism online during the pandemic: A study of French and German content," prepared in 2021 and covering the period January 2020 - March 2021. The study aim to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic might have had on the proliferation of the online anti-semitism and which platforms are particulary prone to anti-semitic messaging in French and German. The results show that there is a significant difference between the engagement activity of anti-semitic posts between French language posts (9.5 millions) and German ones (2,148.8 millions). While most of the engagements with anti-semitic posts for both German and French language posts are found on Telegram, for French language posts Twitter has also a high engagement activity rate.

The chart shows the estimated displacement of first legal views by first illegal views per country. Based on this graph, illegal views displace legal ones the most in the United Kingdom among the countries studied, and least in the Netherlands.

This chart shows the evolution of the value of seized products (billions of euros) in the European Union Internal Market over the period 2017-2020, based on the results of the EUIPO report "EU Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: Results at the EU Border and in the EU Internal Market 2020," published in December 2021. The results show that the estimated value of these detained fake items amounted to almost 1.3 billion euros, a decrease of 27.3 % when compared with 2019.

The chart presents on overview of estimated direct economic costs of infringement in selected IPR-intensive industries in the European Union, over the period 2013-2017. The results of the EUIPO report show that counterfeiting and piracy significantly impact the sales in the clothing, footware and accessories industries, accounting for 46% of their direct lost sales. European Union refers to EU28. The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.

The chart shows the share of estimated counterfeit and pirated goods trade in the European Union imports, for the years 2013, 2016 and 2019, based on the results of the OECD/EUIPO reports "Trade in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods," published in 2016, 2019 and 2021. The results show a decline by one per cent in the share of trade in the counterfeit and pirated goods in EU imports in 2019 compared to 2016.

The chart presents an estimation of the global trade of dangerous counterfeit products in the period 2017-2019, based on the OECD and the European Union Intellectual Property Office report "Dangerous Fakes: Trade in Counterfeit Goods that Pose Health, Safety and Environmental Risks," published in March 2022. The report shows that the total volume of potential dangerous counterfeit products traded amounted to almost USD 75 billion in 2019, slightly lower than in 2017 and 2018, when it amounted to USD 88.4 billion. In addition, the report mentions also that the trade in dangerous counterfeit goods represented a third of global trade in counterfeit goods in 2019.

According to the results of the Eurobarometer survey, in all countries, more than half of respondents viewed the existence of news or information that misrepresents reality or is even false as a problem. Over 90% of respondents from Cyprus, Greece and Italy view this kind of information as problem in their country, while in Belgium only 66% share this view. The respondents were asked "Q4.1 In your opinion, is the existence of news or information that misrepresent reality or even false a problem in your country?" European Union refers to EU28. The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.

This graph shows how the number of professional monitoring cases has changed between 2013 and 2017, based on data from HADOPI (Haute Autorité Française pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet). The number of cases has increased consistently between 2013 and 2017.

In 2017, the attacks specifically classified as ethno-nationalist and separatist accounted for the largest proportion of failed, foiled and completed terrorist attacks.