2025/05/01 by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Alexandre Nougadère, David Makowski +6 · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control #Forest Insect Ecology and Management #Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
paper · pdf · doi:10.2903/sp.efsa.2025.en-9452
openalex publication_date 2025/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/05/08 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract In 2022, EFSA was mandated by the European Commission's Directorate‐General for Health and Food Safety (M‐2022‐00070) to provide technical assistance on the list of Union quarantine pests qualifying as priority pests, as specified in Article 6(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 on protective measures against plant pests. As part of Task C, EFSA conducted expert knowledge elicitations for candidate priority pests, focusing on the lag period, expansion rate and the impact on production (yield and quality losses) and the environment. This report provides the rationale for the dataset on Phymatotrichopsis omnivora, delivered to the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, to feed the Impact Indicator for Priority Pest (I2P2) model and complete the pest prioritisation ranking exercise.