Covid-19: AstraZeneca and the EU end their dispute over vaccine delivery – franceinfo

This agreement terminates legal proceedings engaged in the spring between Brussels and the Swedish-British laboratory, accused of having delayed delivering doses of vaccine.

Posted the 03/09/2021 13:50

Update the 03/09/2021 14:00

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The European Union and AstraZeneca announced Friday, September 3, that they had reached an agreement on the supply of the Twenty-Seven with anti-Covid vaccines. This agreement puts an end to the legal proceedings initiated in the spring against the pharmaceutical company, accused of having delayed delivering the promised doses.

By the end of the first quarter of 2022, the Anglo-Swedish group is committed to delivering in several stages an additional total of around 200 million doses in order to complete the approximately 100 million already received by member states as of June 30. 2021, said the European Commission, recalling that the contract concluded a year ago covered 300 million doses.

The EU criticized the pharmaceutical group for having delivered only 30 million doses in the first quarter of 2021, instead of the 120 million promised. The Union demanded that the additional 90 million be paid to it by June 30, under penalty of heavy penalties.

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