COUNTERFEIT PERFUMES AND COSMETIC PRODUCTS

In 2019, perfumes and cosmetics were the third most commonly seized IPR-infringing goods at the EU’s external border (in terms of the number of seizure procedures). These counterfeit perfumes and cosmetics were valued at approximately EUR 40 million at the time of the seizure . A decrease in reported seizures of these commodities was observed in 2020, when only approximately EUR 20 million worth of counterfeit perfumes and cosmetics were seized . Nonetheless, packaging materials for perfumes became one of the most-seized fake goods at the EU’s external border in 2020 .