The European Commission has slapped an immediate export ban on coronavirus vaccines to ensure European citizens can be vaccinated first.
Health chiefs are also preparing to import 1.2 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine before local production commences of up to 50 million doses at CSL in Melbourne. That means the EU would have the power to ban exports to Australia, but officials here believe it does not represent any plan to immediately do so.
“We understand that the whole world has to deal with supply shocks and therefore our volumes have been appropriately set out this week, but the Foreign Minister has confirmed today that Australia will be making representations through the World Health Organisation and through Europe, with regards to ensuring that the vaccine supplies and certainty for Australia.”
That means we don’t have to wait in a queue with other European countries and can be confident we can make our own vaccine, in the first instance the AstraZeneca vaccine at CSL in Melbourne.“This not an export ban,’’ it said.“The Commission is concerned by the lack of transparency around the ways some companies are operating and wants to have complete information in order to ensure they fulfil their contractual commitments.
The ‘transparency mechanism’ announced gives EU countries powers to deny authorisation for vaccine exports if the company making them hasn’t honoured existing contracts with the EU.
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