L 325/24 Official Journal of the European Union 8.12.2011 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1274/2011 of 7 December 2011 concerning a coordinated multiannual control programme of the Union for 2012, 2013 and 2014 to ensure compliance with maximum residue levels of pesticides and to assess the consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/[EEC ('), in particular Articles 28 and 29 thereof, Whereas: (1) By Commission Regulation (EC) No 1213/2008 (?) a first coordinated multiannual ~ Community  programme, covering the years 2009, 2010 and 2011, was estab- lished. That programme continued under consecutive Commission Regulations. The latest one was Commission Regulation (EU) No 915/2010 of 12 October 2010 concerning a  coordinated  multiannual  control programme of the Union for 2011, 2012 and 2013 to ensure compliance with maximum levels of and to assess the consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin (%). (2)  Thirty to forty foodstuffs constitute the major components of the diet in the Union. Since pesticide uses show significant changes over a period of three years, pesticides should be monitored in those foodstuffs over a series of three-year cycles to allow consumer exposure and the application of Union legislation to be assessed. (3)  On the basis of a binomial probability distribution, it can be calculated that examination of 642 samples allows, with a certainty of more than 99 %, the detection of a sample containing pesticide residues above the limit of determination (LOD), provided that not less than 1 % of the products contain residues above that limit. Collection of these samples should be apportioned among Member States according to population numbers, with a minimum of 12 samples per product and per year. OJ L 70, 16.3.2005, p. 1. OJ L 328, 6.12.2008, p. 9. OJ L 269, 13.10.2010, p. 8. (4)  Analytical results from the 2009 EU official control programme (*) have shown that certain pesticides are more commonly present on agricultural products than previously, indicating changes in the use pattern of those pesticides. Those pesticides should be included in the control programme in addition to those which were covered under Regulation (EU) No 915/2010 in order to make sure that the range of pesticides covered by the control programme is representative of the pesticides used. (5)  The analysis of certain pesticides, in particular those added to the control programme by this Regulation or those with very difficult residue definition, should be optional in 2012 in order to allow time, for official laboratories to validate the methods required for the analysis of those pesticides, in case they have not yet done so. (6)  Where the residue definition of a pesticide includes other active substances, metabolites or breakdown products, those metabolites should be reported separately. (7)  Guidance concerning ‘Method Validation and Quality Control Procedures for Pesticide Residue Analysis in food and feed is published on the Commission website (°). Member States should be allowed, under certain conditions, to use qualitative screening methods. (8)  Implementing measures, such as the Standard Sample Description (SSD) (6) for submitting results of pesticide residues analysis, relating to the submission of information by Member States have been agreed by Member States, Commission and EFSA (9)  For the sampling procedures Commission Directive 2002/63/EC of 11 July 2002 establishing Community methods of sampling for the official control of pesticide residues in and on products of plant and animal origin and repealing Directive 79/700/EEC (7) which  incorporates the sampling methods and procedures recommended by the Codex Alimentarius Commission should apply. () The 2009 European Union Report on Pesticide Residues in Food. EFSA Journal 2011; 9(11):2430 [529 pp.] at: http:/[ec.europa.euf food|plant/protection/pesticides/docs/2009_eu_report_ppesticide_ residues_food_en.pdf (’) Document No. SANCO/10684/2009, Implemented by 1.1.2010. http://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/protection/resources/qualcontrol_en. pdf (%) General guidance on the SSD for all EFSA data collection available on the EFSA journal 2010; 8(1):1457 [54 pp.] at http://www.efsa. europa.cu/en/efsajournal/pub/1457.htm () OJ L 187, 16.7.2002, p. 30.