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Workshop: data collection in plant health

EFSA is hosting a workshop next year on “Data collection and information sharing in plant health”. The event, organised jointly with the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection...

Plant health, Corporate

18 October 2013
Plant health: EFSA consults on citrus canker and citrus black spot

EFSA’s Panel on Plant Health has launched public consultations on two scientific opinions related to the health of citrus plants: the first assesses the risk from two strains of...

Plant health

31 July 2013
Register to observe PLH, CEF Panels and Scientific Committee plenary meetings

Registration for those interested in participating as Observers in the January 2013 plenary meetings of the PLH and CEF Panels and Scientific Committee is now open. Please register by...

Corporate, Cross-cutting science, Plant health

14 December 2012
EFSA reviews work on bees

EFSA has completed a full review of all its risk assessment activities and scientific outputs related to bees and bee health. An inventory has been compiled which will now be...

Pesticides, DATA, GMO, Animal health and welfare, Plant health, Methodology

20 November 2012
Joint event on Risk Assessment in Plant Health

EFSA is holding a 10th anniversary event in Helsinki on 1 October looking at Risk Assessment in Plant Health. As well as examining EFSA’s work in the area of plant health over the past...

Corporate, Plant health

1 October 2012
Bee health: How EFSA is helping to protect our pollinators

EFSA is liaising with the European Commission as well as the French Health and Safety Agency (Anses) following the publication of two new scientific studies in the journal Science...

Animal health and welfare, GMO, Plant health, Pesticides, Methodology

30 March 2012
EFSA opens up scientific meetings to Observers in pilot project

The European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) is today launching a pilot project allowing Observers to attend some meetings of its Scientific Committee and a number of its Scientific...

Biological hazards, Plant health, Pesticides, Cross-cutting science, Stakeholders

7 March 2012
EFSA assesses pine wood nematode threat

EFSA has concluded that the stone pine, a tree species found widely in Portugal and Spain, must still be considered a potential host for pine wood nematode. The Authority’s Panel on...

Plant health

24 January 2012
Phytophthora Ramorum is a threat to European forests, parks and gardens, says EFSA

A fungal-like pathogen that causes “sudden oak death” in California and blight in a number of common plant species is a growing threat to forests, parks and gardens across the...

Plant health

28 June 2011

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