Following the judgment of 13 April 2011 by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the PEAD was discontinued as it no longer fulfilled its initial function of absorbing surpluses produced by European agriculture for charitable purposes. The scale of EU purchases became so significant that the CJEU considered that the PEAD was no longer linked to the CAP but fell under direct social assistance, and therefore should be financed within this framework, which is not communitarized.[2]
A political agreement was formalized on 11 November 2011, by the Member States in order to continue the aid system in another form; the European Commission in agreement with the European Parliament and the European Council proposed, on 14 October 2012, a new fund aimed at replacing the PEAD from 2014. This new fund, created by a European regulation of 11 March 2014, was named: European Fund for Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD).[3][4]
