2025/03/01 by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Sara Tramontini, Gianni Gilioli +8 · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Nematode management and characterization studies #Insect-Plant Interactions and Control #Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
paper · doi:10.2903/sp.efsa.2025.en-9323
openalex publication_date 2025/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/03/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
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 regarding 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 comprehensive expert knowledge elicitations on candidate priority pests, focusing on the lag period, rate of expansion and impact on production (yield and quality losses) and the environment. This report provides the rationale for the dataset on Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, 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.