EFSA Priority Pest Datasheets and Reports

Twenty-eight quarantine pests are documented in this collection from the European Food Safety Authority. Each pest has a structured datasheet and a supporting pest report, produced under a specific European Commission mandate. The data supports the ranking of pests under EU plant health regulations.

Use Cases

• Ranking quarantine pest risks based on structured biological and geographical criteria.
• Comparative pest analysis using standardized datasheets across 28 species.
• Informing EU plant protection policy under Regulation (EU) 2016/2031.
• Validating expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) methodologies in pest risk assessment.

Strengths

• Contains 28 distinct pest datasheets and 28 supporting reports, providing detailed coverage.
• Produced by the authoritative European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) under a formal mandate.
• Open Access (green) license facilitates reuse in policy and research.

Limitations

• Column names and data structure are not specified in the available metadata.
• Exact row counts, file sizes, and last update dates are unknown across all sources.
• Relies on inference from descriptions; the specific data fields are not enumerated.

Provenance

Source

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

Collection Method

Produced under European Commission mandate M-2017-0056, involving expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) and review.

Geography

European Union (focus on quarantine pests relevant to the EU)