AMMAN — In a
statement issued on Friday, the European Commission announced that a settlement
agreement had been reached with AstraZeneca, the producer of COVID-19 vaccines,
ending months of litigation between the parties in court.
اضافة اعلان
According to a UNHCR
statement, the agreement guarantees delivery of the remaining doses of COVID-19
vaccines produced by the company under the contract between the parties on
August 27 2020, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
The agreement provides
the delivery of 135 million dose of the vaccine by the end of 2021 and 65
million doses by the end of 2022.
The company had
delivered 100 million doses to the EU by the end of the second quarter of this
year, which means that it would have to fulfil its legal obligations and
deliver 300 million doses under the contract.
The European
Commission reportedly went to the Belgian judiciary to resolve the dispute with
AstraZeneca after it delayed delivery of vaccines and accused it of treating
its customers in a preferential manner.
In the same context,
the proportion of European citizens who have received the COVID-19 vaccine so
far has reached 70 percent of the total population of EU countries, but there
remains differences between in vaccination rates of EU member countries.
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