Quarantine pests and diseases

Quarantine pests and diseases are harmful organisms, defined under legislation and difficult to control. They cause considerable damage to production in agriculture, forestry and gardening. Below you can find links to the data sheets of EPPO (in pdf format) for the most important quarantine pests and diseases for Finland.

Quarantine pests and diseases in Finland are defined by EU Council Directive 2000/29/EC, Annexes I and II.

Compulsory notification

Quarantine pests and diseases must not be present on production sites or plants offered for sale, whether imported or exported. Anyone who finds, or suspects they have found, quarantine pests or diseases, is obliged to notify a plant inspector from Evira or the region’s ELY-centre.

Forestry

• Asian longhorn beetle
• Citrus longhorn beetle
• Pine wood nematode

Greenhouse production

• Chrysanthemum white rust
• Melon thrips
• Pea leafminer
• American serpentine leafminer
• Sweet potato whitefly
• Tomato spotted wilt tospovirus

Horticulture in open field

• Angular leaf spot of strawberry Asian longhorn beetle
• Brown rot of stone fruit
• Citrus longhorn beetle
• Fireblight
• Ramorum leaf blight/Sudden oak death
• Red stele of strawberry

Potato and sugar beet production

• Brown rot of potato
• Colorado beetle
• Potato cyst nematodes
• Potato wart disease
• Beet necrotic yellow vein virus
• Ring rot of potato

Related topics

• Findings of quarantine pests and diseases in production places
• Prohibitions of import or marketing (in Finnish)
• Anoplophora species

Related links

• Flickr / Evira
• Information by EPPO on quarantine pests and diseases
• Photos: EPPO Gallery
• Europhyt - findings of pests from other EU-countries
• Nordic-Baltic Quarantine Pests Online
• Council Directive 2000/29/EC