EFSA Pest Reports and Datasheets for 28 Candidate Priority Pests

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) produced 28 pest datasheets and 28 supporting pest reports under a European Commission mandate. The outputs are part of a technical assistance request to qualify quarantine pests as priority pests under Regulation (EU) 2016/2031. EFSA acknowledges contributions from specific experts and reviewers.

Use Cases

• Ranking pest priority based on the methodology and criteria described in the mandate.
• Assessing risk profiles for specific quarantine pests using the individual pest reports.
• Supporting regulatory decisions under EU plant health legislation with structured pest datasheets.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
• Includes a specific methodology report and 56 total files (28 datasheets + 28 reports).
• Created in response to a formal European Commission mandate (M-2017-0056).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

Collection Method

Produced under a European Commission mandate for technical assistance.

Geography

European Union