Direct Coronavirus Spain today, breaking news
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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