2025/05/01 by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Alexandre Nougadère, Alexander Mastin +10 · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Forest Insect Ecology and Management #Insect behavior and control techniques #Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
paper · pdf · doi:10.2903/sp.efsa.2025.en-9451
openalex publication_date 2025/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/05/07 · 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 Keiferia lycopersicella, delivered to the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, to feed into the Impact Indicator for Priority Pest (I2P2) model and complete the pest prioritisation ranking exercise.