The AstraZeneca laboratory logo. – Gregor Macak Martin / AP / SIPA
The European Union has demanded, in court, that the AstraZeneca laboratory deliver by June to the Twenty-Seven the 90 million doses of vaccines against the coronavirus not delivered in the 1st quarter, under penalty of financial penalties, announced the European Commission, this Tuesday.
At the end of April, the European Union launched legal action against AstraZeneca, accusing the group of not having kept its commitments on deliveries of its vaccine against the coronavirus.
30 million doses delivered out of the 120 million planned
This is the first time that the Commission has clarified its requirements in the procedure it has initiated against the laboratory. The Swedish-British group delivered in the first quarter only 30 million doses of the 120 million planned. For the second quarter, it plans to provide only 70 million of the 180 million it was originally scheduled to deliver. Significant delays which led the European executive to attack him in April before a court in Brussels so that he respects his commitments.