The Chair of the EP Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Pascal CANFIN (RE, FR) gives a statement on vaccines delivery and contracts transparency.

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Vaccines delivery and contracts transparency: statement by Pascal CANFIN (RE, FR), ENVI Chair

Title: Vaccines delivery and contracts transparency: statement by Pascal CANFIN (RE, FR), ENVI Chair

SOUNDBITE (French), Pascal CANFIN (RE, FR), Chair of the EP Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, The request of the European Parliament and the Environment and Public Health Committee, in particular, has always been the same. It's important to mke public the key elements of the contracts in order to avoid the debates that we are having today when some say there is this foreseen in the contract and the others says exactly the opposite. Publish the contracts, you have signed the same document. In this way everybody can judge and have his own opinion.

SOUNDBITE (French), Pascal CANFIN (RE, FR), Chair of the EP Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, The ccontracts are not published today because when they were signed they were signed with a confidentiality clause. in order to remove this confidentiality clause both sides must agree on it: the European Commission on the one hand, and laboratories on the other hand.

SOUNDBITE (French), Pascal CANFIN (RE, FR), Chair of the EP Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, The European Parliament is asking, the Environment Committee is asking to publish the vaccines to which we are entitled to: the number of doses we are entitled to receive per country, per month. In order to achieve our public health goals we need to vaccinate as quickly as possible as many people as possible.

SOUNDBITE (French), Pascal CANFIN (RE, FR), Chair of the EP Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, in this regard, we are going to organize a hearing with the CEOs of the laboratories whose vaccines have already been approved: Pfizer, Moderna and most likely in a few days, Astra Zeneca so that we can hear their vision of how we are going to be able to scale up and produce even more vaccines. Whatever was signed in these contracts we want to accelerate the process ans this means maybe ordering more doses but it also means being able to produce more.