EFSA Pest Datasheets: Ranking EU Candidate Priority Pests

EFSA produced 28 pest datasheets and reports under European Commission mandate M-2017-0056. The outputs support the technical assessment of quarantine pests qualifying as priority pests under Regulation (EU) 2016/2031. The collection includes a methodology report and detailed profiles for each candidate pest.

Use Cases

• Ranking pest risk based on standardized datasheet criteria.
• Informing regulatory decisions on plant quarantine measures.
• Supporting expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) in agricultural risk assessment.
• Comparative analysis of biological and economic impact for 28 candidate pests.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) under a formal Commission mandate.
• Includes a complete set of 28 pest-specific datasheets and 28 supporting pest reports.
• Released under an Open Access (green) license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Key metadata like column names, row counts, file size, and specific update dates are unavailable across all sources.
• The dataset's structure and specific data fields must be inferred from the description as columns are listed as 'unknown'.

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