The EU Commission made a serious glitch today when it published its framework agreement with the vaccine manufacturer AstraZeneca. The passages in the document that had been blackened out at the company’s request were partially readable in a first version using the bookmark function of Acrobat Reader. It was a technical error, it was said from commission circles. The published version was later replaced.
There was no response from AstraZeneca. The Commission had urged publication of the contract. The background is the dispute over the AstraZeneca announced cut in the delivery of CoV vaccines to the EU in the first quarter.
