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The European Union will force pharmaceutical companies to comply with the contracts they have signed for the supply of vaccines against Covid-19, the president of the European Council said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech have reduced deliveries this week to increase production capacity, and AstraZeneca told the European Union on Friday that it would cut covid vaccine supplies from 60% to 31 million doses in the first quarter of the year due to production problems.
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Pfizer and its partner BioNTech have reduced deliveries this week to increase production capacity, and AstraZeneca told the European Union on Friday that it would cut covid vaccine supplies from 60% to 31 million doses in the first quarter of the year due to production problems.
“We intend to force pharmaceutical companies to comply with the contracts they have signed … using the legal means at our disposal,” Michel told deradio Europe 1.
The senior European official did not mention what sanctions could be imposed, but said the EU will insist on transparency about the reasons for the delays.
He said that after the first signals sent by Pfizer that deliveries would be delayed for several weeks, the European Union had managed to reduce delays through a tough stance.
“I hit the table and in the end, the announced delays of a few weeks turned into a slowdown in deliveries,” said Charles Michel.
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