STRASBOURG (FRANCE) (ITALPRESS) – A temporary revocation of the patents of anti-Covid vaccines. The European Parliament asks for it, with a resolution approved with 355 votes in favor, 263 against and 71 abstentions. In detail, the resolution calls for a temporary derogation from the TRIPS agreement of the World Trade Organization, “in order to improve global access to medicines related to Covid-19 at affordable costs and to address the constraints of world production and shortages. in procurement “. According to MEPs “voluntary licensing agreements (where the vaccine developer decides to whom and under what conditions the patent can be licensed for production) and the voluntary transfer of technology and technical skills to countries where they already exist ‘vaccine manufacturing industries represent the most important way to scale and accelerate global production in the long term “. To address production difficulties, MEPs ask the EU to “rapidly eliminate export barriers and replace its export authorization mechanism with export transparency requirements”. For their part, the United States and the United Kingdom should “immediately abolish their ban on the export of vaccines and the raw materials needed to produce them. In addition, MEPs stress that 11 billion doses are needed to vaccinate 70% of the world‘s population and that only a small part of this quantity was produced. The EU must support production capacities on the African continent as only 0.3% of vaccine doses administered worldwide (approximately 1.6 billion doses) it was delivered in the 29 poorest countries while most of them were administered in industrialized and vaccine-producing countries. The global distribution mechanism of COVAX vaccines represents an important tool for MEPs, who ask “to significantly increase it. financial and non-financial contributions “. Finally, Parliament calls on the EU” to ensure that future preliminary purchase agreements are fully disclosed, in part specific for next generation vaccines, as well as including transparency requirements for suppliers. ” (ITALPRESS). sat / com 10-Jun-21 12:23
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