 Now the European Commission says it has launched legal action against AstraZeneca for not respecting its contract for the supply of COVID-19 vaccines and for not having a reliable plan to ensure timely deliveries. Under the contract, the company had committed to making its best reasonable efforts to deliver 180 million vaccines or vaccine doses to the EU in the second quarter of this year for a total of 300 million in the period from December to June. But the company said in a statement on March 12 that it would aim to deliver only one third of that. Indeed the Commission has started last Friday a legal action against the company AstraZeneca on the basis of breaches of the advance purchase agreement. The reason indeed being that the terms of the contract or some terms of the contract have not been respected and the company has not been in a position to come up with a reliable strategy to ensure the timely delivery of doses. What matters to us in this case is that we want to make sure that there is a speedy delivery of a sufficient number of doses that European citizens are entitled to and which have been promised on the basis of the contract. So the Commission has indeed started legal action on its own behalf and on behalf of the 27 number states that are fully aligned in their support for this procedure. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.