Vaccines: the European Commission and AstraZeneca find themselves in Belgian courts
The European Union and AstraZeneca have an appointment in front of the Belgian justice this Wednesday, May 26.
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AstraZeneca vaccine delivery problems annoy the European Commission.
The European executive will demand this May 26 before the Belgian courts that AstraZeneca delivers by the end of June, to the 27 member countries, the 90 million doses that have not been delivered, on pain of financial penalties.
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The Anglo-Swedish group has delivered 30 million doses of anti-Covid vaccines, while 120 million were expected for the first quarter by Europeans.
For the second quarter, it intends to provide only 70 million of the 180 million planned.
For Europeans, this is insufficient,
hence this procedure
.
The contract is governed by Belgian law, it is therefore a Belgian court which will have to answer if the laboratory has not respected its obligations of results.
The Commission also criticizes
AstraZeneca
for having favored deliveries to the United Kingdom, to the detriment of Europe.
He denies and promises to defend himself firmly.
A second, longer procedure has been initiated on the merits by the European executive to determine whether or not there has been a breach of the contract by the laboratory.
Already, it is the final break between the two parties.
On May 9, the European Union announced that it was not renewing the contract with AstraZeneca, to favor the messenger RNA vaccines Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna, which arrive on time.
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