Commodity risk assessment of Vitis spp. plants from Moldova

Antonio Vicent Civera; Paula Baptista; Elisavet Chatzivassiliou; Jaime Cubero; Nik Cunniffe; Eduardo de la Pena; Nicolas Desneux; Anna Filipiak; Paolo Gonthier; Beata Hasiow-Jaroszewska; Herve Jactel; Blanca B. Landa; Lara Maistrello; David Makowski; Panagiotis Milonas; Nikos T. Papadopoulos; Roel Potting; Hanna Susi; Dirk Jan van der Gaag; Pedro Gomez; Annemarie Fejer Justesen; Andrea Lucchi; Gregor Urek; Jonathan Yuen; Lucia Zappala; Umberto Bernardo; Giovanni Bubici; Anna Vittoria Carluccio; Michela Chiumenti; Francesco Di Serio; Elena Fanelli; Paraskevi Kariampa; Cristina Marzachi; Agata Kaczmarek; Louise Matic; Olaf Mosbach-schulz; Anna Berlin

doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2026.9807

Commodity risk assessment of Vitis spp. plants from Moldova

Antonio Vicent Civera
, Paula Baptista
, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou
, Jaime Cubero
, Nik Cunniffe
, Eduardo de la Pena
, Nicolas Desneux
, Anna Filipiak
, Paolo Gonthier
, Beata Hasiow-Jaroszewska
, Herve Jactel
, Blanca B. Landa
, Lara Maistrello
, David Makowski
, Panagiotis Milonas
, Nikos T. Papadopoulos
, Roel Potting
, Hanna Susi
, Dirk Jan van der Gaag
, Pedro Gomez

Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Andrea Lucchi, Gregor Urek, Jonathan Yuen, Lucia Zappala, Umberto Bernardo, Giovanni Bubici, Anna Vittoria Carluccio, Michela Chiumenti, Francesco Di Serio, Elena Fanelli, Paraskevi Kariampa, Cristina Marzachi, Agata Kaczmarek, Louise Matic, Olaf Mosbach-schulz, Anna Berlin

Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology

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The European Commission requests EFSA to provide scientific opinions in the field of plant health in accordance with Article 29 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002. Annex VI of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 lists plants, plant products and other objects whose introduction into the Union from certain third countries is prohibited. This Scientific Opinion covers plant health risks posed by 1- to 2-year-old grafted bare root plants without leaves of Vitis spp. from the Republic of Moldova, taking into account the available scientific information, including the technical information provided by Moldova. All pests associated with the commodity were evaluated for their relevance for this opinion. Eight pests (one EU quarantine pest and seven Vitis spp. RNQPs) that fulfilled all the criteria were selected for further evaluation. For the selected pests, the risk mitigation measures implemented in Moldova and described in the technical dossier were evaluated. For the selected pests, an expert judgement is given on the likelihood of pest freedom considering the risk mitigation measures acting on the pest, including uncertainties associated with the assessment. The degree of pest freedom varies among the pests evaluated, with grapevine fleck virus (GFkV, Maculavirus vitis) and 'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani' being the pests most frequently expected on the imported plants. The Expert Knowledge Elicitation indicated with 95% certainty that 9900 or more units per 10,000 will be free from the above-mentioned pests.

Original language	English
Article number	e9807
Number of pages	99
Journal	EFSA Journal
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2026.9807
Publication status	Published - 2026

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plant health
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quarantine pest

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Civera, A. V., Baptista, P., Chatzivassiliou, E., Cubero, J., Cunniffe, N., de la Pena, E., Desneux, N., Filipiak, A., Gonthier, P., Hasiow-Jaroszewska, B., Jactel, H., Landa, B. B., Maistrello, L., Makowski, D., Milonas, P., Papadopoulos, N. T., Potting, R., Susi, H., van der Gaag, D. J., ... Berlin, A. (2026). Commodity risk assessment of Vitis spp. plants from Moldova. EFSA Journal, 24(1), Article e9807. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2026.9807

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Commodity risk assessment of Vitis spp. plants from Moldova

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