Source Added:

S-CTG59 to S-CTG70 - EU Counterfeit Seizure 2009 publication

Country-Check added new sources under Counterfeiting dimension. The 2009 report preview Annex 4 of the publication - Breakdown of number of articles detained expressed as % by provenance and by category

For further information, kindly visit the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs/customs_controls/counterfeit_piracy/statistics/index_en.htm

Extracted from - http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/customs/customs_controls/counterfeit_piracy/statistics/statistics_2009.pdf

Source Updates:

1. Country-Check updates raw score values of Carleton - Country Indicators For Foreign Policy (CIFP) - Corruption Index. The latest data released by CIFP is 2006.

For further information and data wxtracted from - http://www.carleton.ca/cgi-bin/cifp/data.pl

Source Removed:

S-CTG5 to S-CTG58 - EU Counterfeit Seizure

With the sources added S-CTG59 to S-CTG70, the raw score data S-CTG5 to 58 were removed as the values are outdated.

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