The delivery of all pest categorisations for the pests included in Appendix 1 is June 2018. First priority covers the harmful organisms included in Appendix 1, comprising pests from Annex II Part A Section I and Annex II Part B of Directive 2000/29/EC. A pest categorisation is expected for these 133 pests or groups and the delivery of the work would be stepwise at regular intervals through the year as detailed below. The list of the harmful organisms included in the annex to this mandate comprises 133 harmful organisms or groups. The same methodology and outcome is expected for this work as well. The methodology and template of pest categorisation have already been developed in past mandates for the organisms listed in Annex II Part A Section II of Directive 2000/29/EC. In line with the principles of the above mentioned legislation and the follow‐up work of the secondary legislation for the listing of EU regulated pests, EFSA is requested to provide pest categorisations of the harmful organisms included in the annexes of Directive 2000/29/EC, in the cases where recent pest risk assessment/ pest categorisation is not available.ĮFSA is requested, pursuant to Article 22(5.b) and Article 29(1) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 3, to provide scientific opinion in the field of plant health.ĮFSA is requested to prepare and deliver a pest categorisation (step 1 analysis) for each of the regulated pests included in the appendices of the annex to this mandate. In the Directive's 2000/29/EC annexes, the list of harmful organisms (pests) whose introduction into or spread within the Union is prohibited, is detailed together with specific requirements for import or internal movement.įollowing the evaluation of the plant health regime, the new basic plant health law, Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 2 on protective measures against pests of plants, was adopted on 26 October 2016 and will apply from 14 December 2019 onwards, repealing Directive 2000/29/EC. The Directive lays down the phytosanitary provisions and the control checks to be carried out at the place of origin on plants and plant products destined for the Union or to be moved within the Union. D. virgifera zeae does not meet the criteria of occurring in the EU, nor plants for planting being the principal means of spread, for it to be regarded as a potential Union regulated non‐quarantine pest.Ĭouncil Directive 2000/29/EC 1 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community establishes the present European Union plant health regime. D. virgifera zeae satisfies the criteria, which are within the remit of EFSA to assess for it to be regarded as a potential Union quarantine pest. Phytosanitary measures are available to inhibit entry of this pest. Should it establish in the EU, impact on maize yields is anticipated. Maize is grown widely across the EU, but establishment may be limited to warmer parts of southern EU. However, adults could be carried on sweetcorn or green maize. A general prohibition of soil from most third countries prevents the entry of immature stages of D. virgifera zeae. D. virgifera zeae is regulated by Directive 2000/29/ EC (Annex IAI). In the Americas, D. virgifera zeae is considered a key maize pest. D. virgifera zeae is univoltine except where maize is grown continuously when there can be multiple overlapping generations each year. Adults are found in and near maize fields from May until frosts appear later in the year. Eggs are laid in the soil of maize fields in late summer/early autumn and hatch in late spring. Adults feed on the leaves, silks, immature seeds of maize, and pollen of up to 63 plant genera. The preferred larval host is maize ( Zea mays) roots, although larvae can feed on the roots of sorghum and other grass species. This is one of two subspecies of D. virgifera which occurs in Central America, Mexico and central southern parts of the USA (Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico). The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Diabrotica virgifera zeae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), the Mexican corn rootworm, for the EU.
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