Northern Italian regions want to order corona vaccines on their own initiative.
The European Commission urges caution.
Meanwhile, a new government is being formed in Rome.
Regions of northern Italy plan to order additional vaccines from foreign suppliers.
It is apparently the Biontech / Pfizer vaccine.
The European Commission reacts cautiously to the initiative.
Venice - For lack of previous supplies.
With this argument, Luca Zaia, President of the Italian region of Veneto, justified the step to order additional vaccine doses against the coronavirus on your own.
On Friday, the politician of the Lega party announced that he had asked the Italian Medicines Agency to buy additional doses of vaccines from foreign suppliers.
This was reported by the news portal
Euractiv
, among others
.
Five northern Italian regions - northern Italy is considered the country's strongest economic region - have pushed forward with this concern.
Italy is not the first EU country to deviate from the overall plan of the European Union.
Hungary has already started administering the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V.
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The approval was granted without the approval of the European Medicines Agency.
EU countries can independently authorize vaccines by means of emergency decrees.
Nevertheless: The EU Medicines Agency urges not to deviate from the current regulations for the authorization of medicinal products.
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Luca Zaia, President of the Veneto Region of Italy.
© Sirotti Stefano / imago
Northern Italy with own initiative in vaccine procurement - additional doses from Biontech / Pfizer
This means that in the case of Italy, too, the European Union does not stand in the way of vaccine procurement.
In contrast to Hungary, the coveted doses are said to be the Biontech / Pfizer vaccine, as
reported by
Bild
.
"Buying vaccines will be legal and in accordance with the rules and guidelines: today we are facing a silent government, while Europe says instead that it is not forbidden to buy them," Luca Zaia said at the press conference.
According to
Euractiv
, the northern Italian regions of Piedmont, Lombardy, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Emilia Romagna took similar steps.
According to the Italian news
platform Il Sole24
,
Luca Zaia
revealed
the scope of the planned delivery.
There are a total of 27 million vaccine doses - an offer over 12 million, an offer over 15 million doses.
According to the newspaper, Zaia emphasized in relation to EU directives: “It is possible to purchase vaccines for your own region.
We have offers from intermediaries on European territory for vaccines that are approved by EMA (European Medicines Agency). "
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All of this is happening while a new government under Mario Draghi is currently forming in Italy.
It will only be clear in a few days how Health Minister Roberto Speranza will react to the request from the regions of northern Italy, said
Euractiv
.
"Everything that lies outside the EU channel must be observed with extreme caution," announced EU Commission spokesman Eric Mamer on the initiative of Italy.
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