EFSA Candidate Priority Pest Datasheets and Reports

EFSA produced 28 pest datasheets and 28 supporting pest reports under European Commission mandate M-2017-0056. This collection assists in ranking quarantine pests qualifying as priority pests under Regulation (EU) 2016/2031. The work includes a methodology report and acknowledges contributions from specific experts in the field.

Use Cases

• Ranking quarantine pests for regulatory priority based on structured datasheet criteria.
• Informing protective plant health measures under EU Regulation 2016/2031.
• Conducting pest risk analysis using standardized methodology and expert knowledge.
• Supporting technical assistance requests from the European Commission on priority pests.

Strengths

• Contains 28 distinct, structured pest datasheets providing consistent information for comparison.
• Includes 28 supporting pest reports, offering detailed context for the datasheet information.
• Produced under an official EU mandate (M-2017-0056) by the authoritative EFSA organization.
• Open Access (green) license facilitates reuse for policy and research purposes.

Limitations

• Key structural metadata is missing from all sources: column names, row counts, and file sizes are unknown.
• The most recent update date is unknown, limiting assessment of data freshness.
• Platform tags are inconsistent and include irrelevant terms like 'Operating system', suggesting poor curation.

Provenance

Source

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

Collection Method

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

Geography

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