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• BIREA contents
  • Introduction
  • Background information
    • Biological control
    • Natural enemies
    • Environmental risks of biological control
      • Direct effects
      • Indirect effects
      • Reducing the risk
    • Biological control best practice
      • Selecting suitable targets for biological control
      • Biological control agent selection
      • Host life stage attacked
      • Interactions with existing biocontrol agents
    • Guide to key elements of the HSNO Act
      • The methodology
      • Section 36: Minimum standards
      • Costs of application preparation
      • Regulatory costs
    • Consultation with Māori
      • The nature of consultation
      • How to go about engagement and consultation
  • Selecting biological control agents
    • Introduction
    • Selecting effective agents
      • What is success in biocontrol?
      • Selecting more effective agents
        • For weed biocontrol
        • For insect biocontrol
        • Characteristics of successful agents
      • Population matching
      • Conflicts of interest
    • Predicting direct non-target impacts
      • Selecting agents for safety
        • Taxonomy
        • Literature
        • Associations
        • Databases
      • Exploration in the target home range
        • Natural host range
        • Some case studies
      • Modelling non-target impacts
        • Attack rate and population impact
        • Interactive model for predicting impact
        • Primary versus secondary attack
        • Climate matching
        • Phenology models
        • Detailed population models
        • What can be predicted?
        • How can models improve biosafety?
    • Factors influencing host selection in the target range
      • Geographic range and biotypes
      • Fundamental vs ecological host range
      • Host suitability and physiology
      • Host finding cues and behaviour
      • Habitats and agent mobility
    • Experimental confirmation of host range
      • Selecting test species
      • Testing methods
      • Predicting indirect non-target effects of agents
        • What we do know
        • What we don't know
      • Indicators of effects
        • Food webs
        • Manipulation and surrogate systems
        • Retrospective studies
  • Applying to import into containment
    • Preparing to make an application
      • Approved containment facilities
      • Considerations specific to a containment application
    • Pre-application consultation
      • Consultation with EPA NZ
      • Consultation with Department of Conservation
      • Consultation with Iwi and Maori organisations
      • Consultation with other organisations
    • Identification and assessment of risks, costs and benefits
    • Completing the application form
      • Contact with EPA New Zealand
      • Application form
  • Containment testing
    • Introduction
    • Test species selection
      • Weed biological control agents
      • Arthropod biological control agents
    • Host range testing methods
      • Test designs for weed biological control
      • Test designs for arthropod biological control
      • Replication
      • Controls
      • No-choice tests
      • Choice tests
      • Sequential testing
      • Parameters that can be measured in host range tests
      • Statistical analysis
    • Overseas field surveys or field tests
  • Applying for general release or release with controls
    • Preparing to make an application
    • Selection of a biological control agent
    • Pre-application consultation
      • Consultation with EPA NZ
      • Consultation with Department of Conservation
      • Consultation with Iwi and Maori organisations
      • Consultation with other organisations
    • Information required
      • Taxonomy and biology
      • Natural host range
      • Biotypes
      • Climatic/environmental suitability
      • Previous use as a biological control agent, and efficacy in that use
      • Performance of related agents
    • Identification and assessment of risks, costs and benefits
      • Risks and costs
      • Benefits and cost-benefit analysis
    • Release with Controls
    • Completing the application forms [new]
      • Sections 1 to 4 [new]
      • Section 5 [new]
      • Sections 6 and 7 [new]
    • Post-application processes
  • Preparing for a public hearing
    • Hearing process
    • Dos and don'ts
  • Releasing biological control agents
    • Selecting release sites
    • Timing of releases
    • Release strategies
    • Collection and redistribution
    • Other issues to consider
  • Post-release monitoring
    • Introduction
    • Monitoring methods
      • Direct effects on non-target, beneficial or valued species
      • Indirect effects on other trophic levels and food webs
  • Annotated bibliography
    • Biological control safety
    • Laboratory host range testing
      • Entomophagous biological control agents
      • Weed biological control agents
      • Pathogen biological control agents
      • Predatory biological control agents
    • Biological control agent biotypes
    • Pre-release prediction of host range and non-target impacts
    • Post-release studies
      • Entomophagous biological control agents
      • Weed biological control agents
      • Predators
      • Pathogens
    • Host range expansion/evolution
    • Environmental impact modelling
    • Risk assessment
    • Biological control regulation
    • Estimating benefits
    • Biological control agent release
    • All references
  • Glossary

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Applying for general release or release with controls

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The EPA requires the applicant to provide comprehensive information about the identity, biology and ecology of the biological control agent, so that it can adequately analyse the risks, costs and benefits associated with an application.

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