Commodity risk assessment of specified species of Lonicera potted plants from Turkey
2022
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (EFSA PLH Panel) | Claude Bragard | Elisavet Chatzivassiliou | Francesco Di Serio | Paula Cristina dos Santos Baptista | Paolo Gonthier | Josep Anton Jaques Miret | Annemarie Fejer Justesen | Alan MacLeod | Christer Sven Magnusson | Panagiotis Milonas | Juan A Navas‐Cortes | Stephen Parnell | Philippe Lucien Reignault | Emilio Stefani | Hans‐Hermann Thulke | Wopke Van der Werf | Antonio Vicent Civera | Jonathan Yuen | Lucia Zappalà | Jane Debode | Charles Manceau | Ciro Gardi | Olaf Mosbach‐Schulz | Roel Potting
Abstract The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to prepare and deliver risk assessments for commodities listed in the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 as ‘High‐risk plants, plant products and other objects’. This Scientific Opinion covers plant health risks posed by potted plants (2–4 years old) of specified Lonicera species produced in nurseries and that are imported from Turkey, taking into account the available scientific information, including the technical information provided by the NPPO of Turkey. The relevance of any pest for this Opinion was based on evidence following defined criteria listed in Section 4.1. Three species, the EU‐quarantine pests Lopholeucaspis japonica and Meloidogyne chitwoodi and the protected zone quarantine pest Bemisia tabaci, fulfilled these criteria and were selected for further evaluation. For these pests, the risk mitigation measures proposed in the technical dossier from Turkey were evaluated taking into account the possible limiting factors. For these pests, an expert judgement is given on the likelihood of pest freedom taking into consideration the risk mitigation measures acting on the pest, including uncertainties associated with the assessment. The estimated degree of pest freedom varies among the pests evaluated, with B. tabaci on evergreen species of Lonicera spp. being the pest most frequently expected on the imported plants. The Expert Knowledge Elicitation indicated, with 95% certainty, that between 9,293 and 10,000 plants per 10,000 would be free of B. tabaci.
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