Potential Covid-19 Vaccine Supplier Moderna Sixth Contract Partner of European Commission
- 25/11/2020
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On 24 November 2020, European Commission President von der Leyen released a statement announcing that she would approve a sixth agreement with a supplier of a potential Covid-19 vaccine (see, attachment). The Commission’s new contract partner is Moderna. Under the agreement, the Commission will have the right to buy up to 160 million doses of the vaccine, if and when that product obtains a marketing authorisation from the European Medicines Agency.
In recent days, the Commission announced similar deals with CureVac (see, Van Bael & Bellis Life Sciences News Alert of 17 November 2020) and with BioNTech and Pfizer (see, Van Bael & Bellis Life Sciences News Alert of 12 November 2020). The Commission President suggested that a seventh agreement is being negotiated which paves the way for the creation in Europe of “one of the most comprehensive COVID-19 vaccine portfolios in the world”.
