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The

European Commission

has filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for failing to fulfill its commitment to deliver the contracted doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to the Member States.

"The European Commission began legal action against

AstraZeneca

on

Friday

on the basis of breaches of the advance purchase agreement," the spokesman for Health of the Community Executive,

Stefan de Keersmaecker

, announced at a press conference

.

"Some terms of the contract have not been respected and the company has not provided a reliable strategy to guarantee a distribution of the doses," said the spokesman, who specified that

Brussels

has acted both "in its own name" and "on behalf of of the 27 Member States, "which are" fully in line "with this decision.

For the Community Executive, the most important thing in the framework of this procedure is to get the Anglo-Swedish laboratory to distribute "quickly" to the countries of the

European Union

the doses promised under the contract between both parties.

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