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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
3.1.2 IAS
EQ3 addresses the extent to which it would be desirable or feasible to include Invasive Alien
Species (IAS) not directly injurious to plants or plant products in the scope of the CPHR. As
such, this question concerns the future plant health policy and is therefore being examined
further in the context of future options in section 5 of this Report. To enable the analysis of
future options on the inclusion of IAS, the evaluators have assessed the extent to which the
current CPHR and its implementation have covered aspects of IAS, as well as the more
general approach on IAS management currently followed in an international context.
Both from the general survey and during the interviews and MS visits, it emerged that there is
currently lack of common understanding, leading to considerable confusion, on both the
definition of IAS and the extent to which IAS are currently covered by the scope of the
Directive. There are therefore extensive calls for clarification of the CPHR on this issue.
The coverage of IAS by the current CPHR and its positioning within the wider scope of IAS
definitions provided by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are depicted in the
figure below.
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