Brussels — EU states could buy potential Covid-19 vaccines through a procurement scheme co-led by the World Health Organisation , the EU Commission said in what appears to be a change in position.
That would represent a change of policy after the EU executive had advised the 27 EU governments not to purchase vaccines through the WHO scheme deeming it slow, expensive and legally incompatible with the parallel EU procurement programme, EU officials said in July. By forcing EU states to buy only through an EU scheme, the commission could reduce the limited amount of doses initially available to less developed countries, because it would prioritise the 450-million EU citizens, effectively replicating nationalist policies of the US and other countries critical of the WHO initiative.
The interpretation that the EU Commission had so far given to this clause was strict. It may have now agreed to a softer stance.
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