EFSA Pest Reports: 28 Candidate Priority Pests for EU Regulation

28 pest reports and datasheets produced by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) under mandate M-2017-0056. The outputs support the ranking of quarantine pests as priority pests under EU Regulation 2016/2031. EFSA acknowledges contributions from Trond Rafoss, Christian Vernière, Antonio Vicent, and reviewer Jaime Cubero.

Use Cases

• Ranking quarantine pests based on the criteria and methodology described in the EFSA report.
• Assessing phytosanitary risk for specific crops using the pest-specific information contained in the datasheets.
• Supporting regulatory decisions under EU plant health legislation with structured technical data.
• Training ML models for agricultural biosecurity threat classification using the tabular pest attributes.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for a specific EU mandate.
• Covers 28 distinct candidate pests, providing a comparative basis for analysis.
• Includes both detailed pest reports and structured datasheets for each pest.

Limitations

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

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