According to the CoE experts, Europe is now perhaps the most profitable market in the world in terms of the production and trafficking of drugs, with the latter believed to be the most important activity of organised crime groups and networks in about a third of the organisation's member states.
Prema rečima eksperata SE, Evropa je sada možda najprofitabilnije tržište na svetu u pogledu proizvodnje i trgovine narkoticima, a smatra se da trgovina narkoticima predstavlja najznačajniju aktivnost grupa i mreža organizovanog kriminala u otprilike trećini zemalja članica organizacije.