Over the last decade, there has been a growing demand for tools to support sustainable healthy lifestyles, including food choices. Through a survey, this study examined the influence of environmental nutrition information conveyed with aids such as nudges and traffic light labels through a...

Purpose This study analyzes what type of influencer - microcelebrity or microinfluencer - is best suited to promoting healthy food brands and how that influence depends on consumers' healthy lifestyles. Design/methodology/approach An empirical study with a real healthy food brand was developed...

In May 2023 Frontex coordinated a joint action day (JAD) against the smuggling of counterfeit goods at the external EU borders, including maritime ones. The JAD was implemented under EMPACT and was led and co-led respectively by Bulgaria and Portugal. The operational activity also focused on the...

The Recommendation provides EU stakeholders and Member States with a toolbox to strengthen the EU's capacity to protect the single market from counterfeiting and piracy. It facilitates collaboration and transparency, promotes best practice, and addresses the specific challenges faced by industry...

The Recommendation provides EU stakeholders and Member States with a toolbox to strengthen the EU's capacity to protect the single market from counterfeiting and piracy. It facilitates collaboration and transparency, promotes best practice, and addresses the specific challenges faced by industry...

The Recommendation provides EU stakeholders and Member States with a toolbox to strengthen the EU's capacity to protect the single market from counterfeiting and piracy. It facilitates collaboration and transparency, promotes best practice, and addresses the specific challenges faced by industry...

Developed with intellectual property (IP) practitioners in national judicial authorities in mind, this report aims to provide a better understanding of how criminal infringements of copyrights are legislated and enforced across Member States of the European Union. Its focus are online criminal...

Resource scarcity, the effects of climate change, food insecurity, and health issues related to dietary choices have prompted policymakers to develop new strategies to encourage populations to opt for healthy and sustainable (HS) diets. In this context, nudging strategies are promising tools to...

One way to prevent diseases caused by unhealthy diets is to help consumers make better dietary choices. Knowledge about the consumer perception of food healthiness can help to understand which indicators are important for consumers to make healthy food choices. Generation Z members are young...

Maritime transport has been historically susceptible to piracy. While broad assessments suggest the impact of modern piracy causes large economic losses, the literature lacks quantification of the magnitude of the costs and the behavioral responses that underpin them. Here, we combine theory and...

Although insects have been approved as novel foods since 2021, European consumers' willingness to purchase insect-based (IB) foods remains low. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of (i) information treatments highlighting either the safety or environmental benefits of IB...

Food security is a significant global concern as a result of the burden that the fast-expanding global population has placed on finite resources, such as arable land for farming. Additionally, the hunt for more nutritious food alternatives has been prompted by a growing understanding of health,...

Access to a healthy diet is a fundamental human right, yet a significant portion of the global population faces barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed around food consumption inadequate for lifelong health. We propose poverty lines based on the cost of a...

Maritime piracy is a pressing global economic and security challenge, posing significant threats to international shipping and global trade. Contemporary piracy is intrinsically linked to matters of governance and economic marginalization fostered by the globalization of the world economy. The...

This paper examines the economic impact of wine counterfeiting, with a focus on the Sassicaia scandal, publicized in 2020, regarding counterfeit 2015 vintage bottles of the iconic Super Tuscan wine. Wine fraud, documented since ancient Rome, has evolved alongside the industry, with key...

This study uses a unique international database on customs seizures between the years 2011 to 2013 and matches global corporate statistics to study the impacts of counterfeiting on authentic corporations’ investment and revenues. Applying the matched sampling combined with panel analyses, we...

This study proposes a handwritten signature verification method based on Improved combined features, which combines dynamic features and static features by using the complementarity between classifiers and score fusion. The significance of this study is for the purpose of verifying the...

With the proliferation of third-party sellers, counterfeiting has become a serious source of friction in online marketplaces. We apply natural language processing techniques to Amazon product reviews to generate a listing-level counterfeit probability, which in turn is used to classify ASIN...

In malaria-endemic countries, the limited availability of affordable antimalarial medication has contributed to the widespread distribution of inferior counterfeit drugs. We study such markets to determine how philanthropic donors can best allocate limited funds to subsidize the purchase or...

In recent years, pharmaceutical drug traceability systems have been developed as critical tools for improving the digital supply chain's transparency and visibility. Blockchain-based drug traceability proposes a promising solution to create a distributed shared data platform for an irreversible,...

Access to a healthy diet is a fundamental human right, yet a significant portion of the global population faces barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed to adequately capture caloric needs but they are inadequate for capturing other essential nutritional...

This working paper presents the results of a rapid literature review of program evaluations of food subsidies to promote healthy eating that address sales/prices, consumption, and/or health outcomes. It presents policy relevant findings on food subsidies to promote healthy eating that have been...

The European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights (the Observatory) was created to improve the understanding of the role of intellectual property and of the negative consequences of intellectual property rights (IPRs) infringements. The sectorial studies published during...

The use of advertising to fund websites and mobile apps that offer pirated content has become an insidious practice within the online piracy landscape. This flyer gives an overview of the scale of the problem, the actors operating within the advertising ecosystem, and the types and formats of...

The aim of this study is to develop a fuller understanding of factors that drive the intentional demand for counterfeit goods. Counterfeit products are fakes or unauthorised replicas of the original product, usually illegally marked with logos and brands belonging to the company that sells the...

In March 2021, Eurojust and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) signed a Service Level Agreement (SLA) establishing the Eurojust IP Crime (IPC) Project, aimed at boosting cooperation and ensuring a more coherent and robust response against IP infringements across the EU. The...

This study addresses the potential of functional foods in India, a country where health and Ayurveda have always been of prime importance. Despite the acceptance of Ayurvedic knowledge, most research on functional foods has been conducted in European countries. Thus, this study aimed to fill...