EFSA Pest Reports and Datasheets for 28 Candidate Priority Pests

Two files containing 28 pest datasheets and 28 supporting pest reports produced by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) 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 Mariangela Ciampitti, Bjorn Hoppe, and reviewer Christian MacQuarrie.

Use Cases

• Ranking pest threats based on criteria described in the EU regulation.
• Supporting phytosanitary policy decisions with structured pest information.
• Analyzing risk factors for candidate priority pests as mentioned in the mandate.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
• Includes 28 distinct pest datasheets and 28 corresponding pest reports.
• Created under 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 mandate M-2017-0056, involving expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) and review.

Geography

European Union