Claude Bragard, Paula Baptista, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Francesco Di Serio, Paolo Gonthier, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Alan MacLeod, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A Navas-Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Philippe Lucien Reignault, Emilio Stefani, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Antonio Vicent Civera, Jonathan Yuen, Lucia Zappalà, Richard Mally, Ewelina Czwienczek, Alex Gobbi, Júlia López Mercadal, Andrea Maiorano, Olaf Mosbach-Schulz, Marco Pautasso, Eugenio Rossi, Giuseppe Stancanelli, Sara Tramontini, Wopke Van der Werf
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a quantitative risk assessment for the EU of African Leucinodes species (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), which are fruit and shoot borers, especially of eggplant type fruit. The assessment focused on (i) potential pathways for entry, (ii) distribution of infested imports within EU, (iii) climatic conditions favouring establishment, (iv) spread and (v) impact. Options for risk reduction are discussed, but their effectiveness was not quantified...
April 2024: EFSA journal