The European Commission lately warned the European member states that the import of counterfeit goods in Europe is increasing seriously. While China’s production is booming, also the production and export of counterfeit products increases. Some say that factories in China make legal products in the day, and then make the counterfeit products at night.
Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer from the Swiss public TV broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen travels to The Netherlands to find out what the Dutch customs and a specialised European anti-counterfeit organisation have to say about the increase of counterfeit goods coming into Europe.
Dutch customs officers show what counterfeited products they intercepted coming in via the Rotterdam harbour and the Amsterdam airport. The managing director from the anti-counterfeiting network React gives his views about the increase of intercepted counterfeit goods and how to fight it and a React counterfeit goods control is filmed on a market in The Hague. A man selling fake perfume
Is detected and arrested by the local police. All filmed by a hidden camera in a suitcase.
For this reportage for the background reportage program ’10 vor 10’ Featurez gave advice, did the research, set-up and planning, booked hotel rooms, organised a hidden camera and accompanied the filming.