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Vaccines: Contract between European Commission and AstraZeneca now published

8 points by the-dude 6y ago

the-dude 6y ago
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.
- the-dude 6y ago
  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.
- cbg0 6y ago
  > 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.
  - the-dude 6y ago
    Could please provide sources for these claims? edit: And if these claims would be really true, what is the point of publishing the contract?
    - cbg0 6y ago
      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-coronavirus-vaccine-belgium-europe-172b5de3151d923c1b2ac83689599128 https://apnews.com/article/europe-coronavirus-pandemic-coron...). They aren't directly accusing them, but you have to read between the lines a bit.
      - the-dude 6y ago
        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.
giuliomagnifico 6y ago
tl;dr OMISSIS, OMISSIS, hello world, OMISSIS...
eisstrom 6y ago
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-das-steht-in-den-geschwaerzten-passagen-des-astrazeneca-vertrages-a-e452363a-adfb-4dd9-9d0d-23f9c07f42ab https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/corona-impfstoff-...

8 points by the-dude 6y ago

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.

the-dude 6y ago
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.
cbg0 6y ago
> 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.
- the-dude 6y ago
  Could please provide sources for these claims? edit: And if these claims would be really true, what is the point of publishing the contract?
  - cbg0 6y ago
    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-coronavirus-vaccine-belgium-europe-172b5de3151d923c1b2ac83689599128 https://apnews.com/article/europe-coronavirus-pandemic-coron...). They aren't directly accusing them, but you have to read between the lines a bit.
    - the-dude 6y ago
      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.

giuliomagnifico 6y ago

tl;dr OMISSIS, OMISSIS, hello world, OMISSIS...

eisstrom 6y ago

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-das-steht-in-den-geschwaerzten-passagen-des-astrazeneca-vertrages-a-e452363a-adfb-4dd9-9d0d-23f9c07f42ab https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/corona-impfstoff-...