Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture

The Institute performs the administration and carries out some other administrative activities, expert and testing tasks and control and monitoring activities in accordance with special acts in the areas of plant variety testing, feedingstuffs, agrochemical testing of soils, soils and plant nutrition, seeds and seedlings of the grown plants, perennial plants (viniculture and hops), protection against harmful organisms and plant protection.

Pest risk analysis

Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) is defined under the International Plant Protection Convention as “the process of evaluating biological or other scientific and economic evidence to determine whether an organism is a pest, whether it should be regulated, and the strength of any phytosanitary measures to be taken against it”.

PRA helps to identify and evaluate the probability of introduction and spread of a pest, the magnitude of expected damage to economy and environment and, if needed, possible management options that will reduce the pest risk to an acceptable level. There are international standards that set out guidelines for conducting a PRA.