Launch of the 2013 EU drug markets report
The European drug market is a complex phenomenon, with new realities now emerging to challenge long-held certainties. Two EU agencies — the EMCDDA and Europol — have thus joined forces to provide the first state-of-the-art overview of this market in its entirety.
The analysis provided by the report is unique, combining insights from the EMCDDA’s monitoring and data analysis of Europe’s drug phenomenon in the global context with Europol’s operational understanding of trends in organised crime.
Drug trafficking—whilst illegal—is a highly profitable commercial activity. Understanding this market reality requires a holistic approach, following the economic chain from production to consumption via trafficking.'
Cecilia Malmström
European Commissioner for Home Affairs
Press material
- EC Press release: EU report unveils new worrying trends in smuggling and consumption (31.01.2013)
- EC Memo: key findings of the EU drug markets report (31.01.2013)
- EC Press release: Commission calls for EU-wide ban on amphetamine-like drug '4-MA' (31.01.2013)
- News release No 1/2013: Upcoming EU drug markets report from the EMCDDA and Europol — First strategic analysis of the European drug market (25.01.2013)
Press conference, presentations and speeches
- Recording of the press conference (EbS) (31.01.2013, CET 12:30, Brussels)
- Photos of the press conference
- Speech by Wolfgang Götz, EMCDDA Director
- Speech by Cecilia Malmström, EU Commission for Home Affairs
- Presentation to the LIBE Committee (20.02.2013)
Report and Case studies
Photos and graphics from the Case studies are available for download >>
- Case study 1 – Cannabis: changing demand and an increase in domestic production
- Case study 2 – Methamphetamine production and trafficking increasing in Europe
- Case study 3 – New psychoactive substances: 73 detected in 2012
- Case study 4 – Twenty-seven arrested as European police dismantle drug smuggling network
- Case study 5 – Synthetic drugs network broken up
- Case study 6 – 6.5 tonnes of heroin precursor seized
- Case study 7 – International judicial and law-enforcement cooperation leads to trial against major Swedish cocaine smugglers
- Case study 8 – Mobile production units