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Originally Posted by svenrico
'The U.K. contract was signed on August 28, while the EU’s was signed a day earlier on August 27.
However, the key lies in an earlier agreement that AstraZeneca made back in May with the U.K., which was a binding deal establishing.......
Sounds to me like the EU have made a pig's ear of it and they are now trying to change the rules.
..... and why are they now referring to the 'UK variant' of the virus, as if Britain is responsible for it. I thought it came from China!
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An agreement was made between AZ and the EU commission in June 2020, prior to the contract of August, according to
https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-ce...no-profit.html
The argument was that AZ signed the contract with the EU including two critical clauses, as described in
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56486733
I have read the EU/AZ contract and these items are stated categorically, and AZ signed up to them.
Viz.
"They say the EU-AstraZeneca contract promised:
to ensure vaccine deliveries to the EU using production facilities in both the EU and UK
an assurance from AstraZeneca that it had no other contracts which could get in the way of it fulfilling its commitments to the EU"
I guess the variants are referred to by country of origin for simplicity, UK/South Africa/Brazil. They have scientific references for precision. I have not seen or heard any discussion regarding the coincidence that the 3 variants which appear to be of concern are the UK/SA/Brazil and AZ carried out their trials in UK/SA/Brazil. Pure coincidence I am sure.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...661-1/fulltext