The need to develop a Europe-wide early warning and information system to report new and emerging alien species and crucial role of information management for future pan-European early warning and rapid response system to tackle biological invasions has been recently recognized.

EEA Technical report Towards an early warning and information system for invasive alien species (IAS) threatening biodiversity in Europe

Recommendations of the European Commission Working Group on Early Warning and Rapid Response (EU CIRCA website)

A complete and effective early warning system (EWS) comprises four inter-related elements: risk knowledge, monitoring and warning service, dissemination and communication and response capability (UN Global Survey of Early Warning Systems report ). The Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre (REABIC) is currently developing several information tools in order to contribute to most of these key elements of regional and national EWSs, including: international open-access journals Aquatic Invasions and BioInvasions Records as instruments of rapid IAS information dissemination and communication platform of experts.

Panov VE, Gollasch S, Lucy F (2011) Open-access journal Aquatic Invasions: An important part of the developing European information and early warning system on invasive alien species. Aquatic Invasions, Volume 6, Issue 1: 1-5

Lucy FE, Panov VE (2012) BioInvasions Records: A new international journal on biological invasions. BioInvasions Records, Volume 1, Issue 1: 1-4

First Records of Invasive Alien Species in the Black Sea Basin (published in Aquatic Invasions and BioInvasions Records in 2009-2013)

1 – First record of predatory isopod Saduria entomon in coastal waters of the Black Sea (Kvach 2009)

2 – First record of parasitic worm Aspidogaster conchicola in the Black Sea basin (Yuryshynets and Krasutska 2009)

3 – First record of Asian prawn Palaemon macrodactylus in coastal waters of the Black Sea (Micu and Niţă 2009)

4 - First record of Asian prawn Palaemon macrodactylus in Bulgaria (Raykov et al. 2010)

5 - First record of Japanese shore crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus in coastal waters of the Black Sea (Micu et al. 2010)

6 – First record of subtropical ctenophore Bolinopsis vitrea in coastal waters of the Black Sea (Öztürk et al. 2011)

7 - First record of Asian clam Corbicula fluminea in Moldova (Munjiu and Shubernetski 2010)

8 – First record of the Ponto-Caspian amphipod Echinogammarus trichiatus for the Middle-Danube (Borza 2009)

9 – First record of Chinese pond mussel Sinanodonta woodiana in Croatia (Lajtner and Crnčan 2011)

10 – First record of round goby Neogobius melanostomus in Croatia (Piria et al. 2011)

11 - Ponto-Caspian polychaeta Hypania invalida in inland waters of Serbia (Zoric et al. 2011)

12 - First records of Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii in lower Danube River (Kvach 2012 and Reshetnikov 2013 in press)

13 - First records of Asian copepod Oithona davisae in coastal waters of Black Sea (Temnykh, Nishida 2012 and Mihneva, Stefanova 2013 in press)

14 - First record of crayfish plague Aphanomyces astaci in lower Danube River (Schrimpf et al. 2012)

15 - First records of guagga mussel Dreissena bugensis in Danube River (Heiler et al. 2013 in press) and in lower Don River (Zhulidov et al. 2013 in press; Prokin et al. 2013 in press)

16 - New records of killer shrimp Dikerogammarus villosus in the upper Dnieper River and lower Don River (Semenchenko et al. 2009, 2013 in press; Prokin et al. 2013 in press)

17 - New records of Caspian amphipod Dikerogammarus caspius in the lower Don River (Prokin et al. 2013 in press)

18 - New records of Ponto-Caspian amphipod Pontogammarus robustoides in the upper Dnieper River and lower Don River (Semenchenko et al. 2009, 2013 in press; Prokin et al. 2013 in press)

19 - New records of Ponto-Caspian amphipod Obesogammarus crassus in the upper Dnieper River and lower Don River (Semenchenko et al. 2009, 2013 in press; Prokin et al. 2013 in press)

20 - First records of Ponto-Caspian stellate tadpole-goby Benthophilus stellatus in the upper Don River (Rizevsky et al. 2013 in press)