Vaccine export control

Vaccine export control

External

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

News

 * 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 -