After huge to + fro between AstraZeneca and Brussels about the terms of their #covid vaccines contract, the EU Commission says AstraZeneca has now agreed to publish the contract. EU has argued terms include delivery of vaccines from the company’s UK as well as EU production sites
Contract does mention that under the terms of making the”best reasonable efforts”(legal term in this context) to provide EU with agreed number of vaccines AstraZeneca would use production facilities in EU but also U.K. and possibly sites outside EU “to accelerate supply” toEurope
EU believes it has a strong case to demand some vaccines produced in U.K. should be diverted to EU to make up the approx 60% shortfall in vaccine delivery to EU up to end of March that AstraZeneca has warned about
U.K. government has tried to keep out of EU-AstraZeneca row and has been emphasising that it has a separate contract with the company. Cabinet ministers insist U.K. vaccine supply will not be affected by the dispute
In sensitive post-Brexit climate EU Commission has tried to emphasise it sees this row as being with AstraZeneca, not the U.K. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Lawyers need to take a close look at the contract. AstraZeneca insists the European Commission is wrong in its demand to divert vaccines from U.K. sites. The U.K. signed its contract with the company well in advance of the EU concluding its contract
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