Vaccines: Contract between European Commission and AstraZeneca now published

the-dude wrote: post #2

Context : EU is heavily disappointed because AZ does not deliver the full contract due to production problems. AZ claims to have only signed for the best effort to deliver.

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 AstraZeneca now published

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Post by cbg0 » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 12:23 PM UTC

the-dude wrote: post #2

Context : EU is heavily disappointed because AZ does not deliver the full contract due to production problems. AZ claims to have only signed for the best effort to deliver.

> 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 AstraZeneca now published

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Post by the-dude » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 12:25 PM UTC

cbg0 wrote: post #5

the-dude wrote: post #2

Context : EU is heavily disappointed because AZ does not deliver the full contract due to production problems. AZ claims to have only signed for the best effort to deliver.

> 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.

Could please provide sources for these claims?

edit: And if these claims would be really true, what is the point of publishing the contract?

Re: Vaccines: Contract between European Commission and AstraZeneca now published

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Post by cbg0 » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:49 PM UTC

the-dude wrote: post #6

cbg0 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Could please provide sources for these claims? edit: And if these claims would be really true, what is the point of publishing the contract?

It's been speculated in the press, and likely why the European Commission is looking into potentially restricting vaccine exports to non-EU countries (https://apnews.com/article/europe-coronavirus-pandemic-coron...).

They aren't directly accusing them, but you have to read between the lines a bit.

Re: Vaccines: Contract between European Commission and AstraZeneca now published

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Post by eisstrom » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:57 PM UTC

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.

paywall: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/corona-impfstoff-...

Re: Vaccines: Contract between European Commission and AstraZeneca now published

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Post by the-dude » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

cbg0 wrote: post #7

the-dude wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could please provide sources for these claims? edit: And if these claims would be really true, what is the point of publishing the contract?

It's been speculated in the press, and likely why the European Commission is looking into potentially restricting vaccine exports to non-EU countries ( https://apnews.com/article/europe-coronavirus-pandemic-coron... ). They aren't directly accusing them, but you have to read between the lines a bit.

No matter how hard I squint, I can't find the reason to believe these are only false claims ( your words ).

What I do read between the lines that the EU is doing a best effort to deflect blame on AZ.