General Court rules Commission failed to provide sufficient access to Covid-19 vaccine purchase agreements
In two recent rulings, the General Court of the European Union found that the European Commission did not adequately provide public access to purchase agreements for Covid-19 vaccines, particularly concerning indemnification clauses and conflict of interest declarations of the negotiating team members. These cases, T-689/21 (Auken and Others v Commission) and T-761/21 (Courtois and Others v Commission), arose after the Commission only partially disclosed these documents in response to requests from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and private individuals.
In 2020 and 2021, the European Commission entered into agreements with pharmaceutical companies to purchase over a billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines, releasing approximately..
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