EU and AstraZeneca reach deal to end vaccine delivery dispute

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The European Commission, which is the EU's executive branch, said AstraZeneca made a 'firm commitment' to deliver a total of 300 million doses by March next year. 9News

made a "firm commitment" to deliver a total of 300 million doses by March next year, as agreed under the advance purchasing agreement the two sides signed a year ago. About 100 million doses have already been supplied.

The European Union and drugmaker AstraZeneca said Friday that they reached a deal to end a damaging legal battle over the slow pace of deliveries of the company's COVID-19 vaccines In June, a Belgian court ruled that AstraZeneca had committed a "serious breach" of its contract with the 27-nation bloc. The company said at the time that the ruling showed it "fully complied with its agreement" with the European Commission.

AstraZeneca said that, along with its partners, it has supplied more than 1.1 billion doses of vaccine to over 170 countries, and that approximately two-thirds have gone to low- and lower-middle-income countries.The EU had claimed from the beginning that it launched an emergency legal procedure against AstraZeneca simply to secure the vaccine doses that EU member countries were promised.

 

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