Re:Vaccines: Contract between European Commission and AstraZ...
by the-dude on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:19AM
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Reading it while having lunch, the money shot is on page 2 :
WHEREAS, as part of that scale-up, AstraZeneca has committed to use its Best Reasonable Efforts (as defined below) to build capacity to manufacture 300 million Doses of the Vaccine, at no profit and no loss to AstraZeneca, at the total cost currently estimated to be Euros for distribution within the EU (the “Initial Europe Doses”), with an option for the Commission, acting on behalf of the Participating Member States, to order an additional 100 million Doses (the “Optional Doses”).
Will study the definition of the BRE now.
edit : the defition of the BRE is on page 3, and it is nothing special.
Re:Vaccines: Contract between European Commission and AstraZ...
by cbg0 on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:23AM
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> EU is heavily disappointed because AZ does not deliver the full contract due to production problems
They're disappointed because there is a reason to believe these are only false claims while AZ might in fact be exporting vaccines to non-EU countries to make some extra money and under-delivering to the EU.
Re:Vaccines: Contract between European Commission and AstraZ...
by eisstrom on Friday January 29, 2021 @08:57AM
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Spiegel Online found out that (for some reason) parts of the text are visible in the bookmarks of the PDF if it is right after a section heading. This includes the redacted text.
AZ claims to have only signed for the best effort to deliver.
WHEREAS, as part of that scale-up, AstraZeneca has committed to use its Best Reasonable Efforts (as defined below) to build capacity to manufacture 300 million Doses of the Vaccine, at no profit and no loss to AstraZeneca, at the total cost currently estimated to be Euros for distribution within the EU (the “Initial Europe Doses”), with an option for the Commission, acting on behalf of the Participating Member States, to order an additional 100 million Doses (the “Optional Doses”).
Will study the definition of the BRE now.
edit : the defition of the BRE is on page 3, and it is nothing special.
They're disappointed because there is a reason to believe these are only false claims while AZ might in fact be exporting vaccines to non-EU countries to make some extra money and under-delivering to the EU.
edit: And if these claims would be really true, what is the point of publishing the contract?
They aren't directly accusing them, but you have to read between the lines a bit.
What I do read between the lines that the EU is doing a best effort to deflect blame on AZ.
paywall: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/corona-impfstoff-...