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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
phytosanitary system. For example, Russia, South America and Australia include weeds.
Australia and some other countries have PRAs on weeds. Similarly, most of the new MS prior to
accession had included weeds in their quarantine lists.
3.1.2.3 IAS trends in the EU
There is significant evidence that the emergence of IAS is a growing concern of the last few
decades, and specifically associated with growing trade in certain high risk products, notably
ornamentals and exotic species more generally. This view is commonly expressed by the
majority of MS CAs and stakeholders and the international organisations interviewed for this
evaluation, and is backed up by the growing number of interceptions of IAS on such products
(MS evidence and EUROPHYT), and it confirms the findings of previous research as
summarised below.
According to systematic research carried out across the EU in the context of a pan-European IAS
inventory established by the EC funded project DAISIE 70 , intentional introductions of
naturalised aliens (i.e. species with the area of origin outside Europe) account for two thirds
(69%) of all introductions to Europe, with ornamentals the biggest category (36%), versus one
third of introductions due to unintentional pathways such as contamination of consignments.
Figure 3-4: Pathways of introduction for naturalised aliens to Europe (DAISIE)
Note: Pathways of intentional introductions are underlined. Based on 2024 naturalised aliens.
Source: Hulme P. et al (2008)
70 DAISIE: Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (www.europe-aliens.org). DAISIE identified
1094 species with documented ecological impacts and 1347 species with documented economic impacts, out of the
10,822 alien species known to exist in Europe. It identified the hundred worst IAS in Europe, mainly based on
current knowledge about the ecological effects of IAS on European territory.
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