Vaccine export control

Vaccine export control

External

 * Europa, Trade Import and export rules, Export from the EU
 * tariffnumber.com, 30022010

News

 * 21 Mar 2021, Bloomberg.com, Vaccine battle heats up with eu ready to halt UK shipments
 * 21 Mar 2021, Reuters.com, EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca covid vaccines from Europe
 * 20 Mar 2021, Politico.eu, Von der Leyen threatens AstraZeneca with vaccine export ban, EU could block exports if firm does not meet delivery obligations, Commission chief says.
 * 17 Mar 2021, Politico.eu, UK accuses EU of vaccine ‘brinkmanship’ after threat to block exports, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says spat over jabs reminds him of ‘less democratic regimes than our own.’ “The supply of vaccines from EU production facilities to the U.K. is indeed fulfilling contractual responsibilities, and we fully expect those contracts to be delivered on,” Hancock said.
 * 17 Mar 2021, Politico.eu, Von der Leyen threatens to block vaccine exports unless EU ‘gets its fair share’, The EU may also restrict vaccine exports to countries with higher vaccination rates than Europe. [...] "We have observed that in the last six weeks, actually 10 million doses by now have been exported to the U.K. We're still waiting for doses to come from the U.K." she added.
 * 12 Mar 2021, (fr) franceinfo:, Covid-19 : pourquoi l'Union européenne exporte des millions de vaccins, L'Europe a envoyé 34 millions de doses de vaccins vers 31 pays. Un chiffre qui a de quoi surprendre, alors que le continent est à la traîne dans sa campagne de vaccination.
 * 11 Mar 2021,, Commission extends transparency and authorisation mechanism for exports of covid-19 vaccines
 * 11 Mar 2021, Politico.eu, EU’s UK ambassador denies ‘vaccine nationalism’ amid export row, João Vale de Almeida called for transparency in UK coronavirus jab exports.
 * 10 Mar 2021, Politico.eu, EU to extend vaccine export restrictions until June, The scheme was originally set to run until the end of March... While the U.K. does not have a legal ban on coronavirus vaccine exports, it has contractually made sure that locally produced vaccines stay in the country.
 * 10 Mar 2021, Politico.eu, Why the UK doesn’t need a coronavirus vaccine export ban, With clever contracts and targeted investments, Britain has secured vaccine supply by other means.
 * 10 Mar 2021, Charles Michel challenges UK to show vaccine export data, In an interview, European Council president presses London to disclose numbers, saying EU is exporting ‘a lot of doses.’
 * 09 Mar 2021, Politico.eu, UK anger at EU claim it has banned vaccine exports, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab writes to Charles Michel to say UK has ‘not blocked the export of a single COVID-19 vaccine.’
 * 05 Mar 2021, Politico.eu, Australia asks Commission to review Italy’s Oxford/AstraZeneca export block, ‘In Italy, people are dying at the rate of 300 a day,’ PM Scott Morrison acknowledges, while in Australia there were just 2 locally acquired cases of coronavirus in the past week.
 * 04 Mar 2021, Politico.eu, Italy blocks shipment of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine headed to Australia, The EU’s export scheme requires companies to get explicit authorization from national authorities before exporting vaccines.
 * 25 Feb 2021, Reuters.com, EU says UK, U.S. have vaccine export bans, EU allows exports of Pfizer, Moderna shots, Von der Leyen added that the United States and Britain had systems in place that effectively blocked the export of covid-19 vaccines.
 * 10 Feb 2021, Bloomberg.com, European Union approves 23 more exports of covid-19 vaccines
 * 11 Feb 2021, voxeu.org, Export controls on covid-19 vaccines: Has the EU opened Pandora’s box?
 * 31 Jan 2021, Politico.eu, EU offers UK ‘reassurances’ over vaccine supply after Irish border row, UK minister emphasizes need for ‘collaboration’ on vaccines.
 * 29 Jan 2021, Politico.eu, UK weighs vaccine export restrictions, The move follows fears that vaccines produced in the UK could be diverted to the EU.
 * 29 Jan 2021, Europa, Commission puts in place transparency and authorisation mechanism for exports of covid-19 vaccines
 * 28 Jan 2021, Politico.eu, EU brandishes export ban to claim dibs on vaccines, After production setbacks by Pfizer and AstraZeneca, Commission announces measures to block international shipments.
 * 28 Jan 2021, Politico.eu, UK won’t lift coronavirus medicine export restrictions, Boris Johnson said it was ‘commonsensical’ not to restrict cross-border supplies of vaccines.
 * 28 Jan 2021, Bloomberg.com, Faced with vaccine shortages, EU set to impose export controls
 * 27 Jan 2021, Politico.eu, UK restricts COVID medicine exports amid AstraZeneca vaccine fight, Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he doesn’t want border ‘restrictions’ for medicines, but that’s what his government is doing.

EUR-Lex

 * , Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/111 of 29 January 2021 making the exportation of certain products subject to the production of an export authorisation - OJ L 31I, 30.1.2021, p. 1–8 -