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Parliament calls for temporary COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver | News

To accelerate global vaccine rollout, MEPs demand the temporary lifting of intellectual property rights protection for COVID-19 vaccines.

COVID-19 variants: MEPs share concerns about efficacy of vaccines | News

MEPs share concerns about efficacy of vaccines against COVID-19 variants ©AFP/Valery HACHE   On Monday, Members of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee debated with experts on the efficacy of vaccines against mutations of the COVID-19 virus. Representatives from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) updated MEPs on the state of play of existing COVID-19 variants. They shared information regarding how effective authorised vaccines are against different variants, and discussed global challenges and the need for a global coordinated response to addressing variants. MEPs expressed their concerns regarding fast-spreading variants, especially given the vaccination rate across the EU remains lower than expected. They lamented the lack of data available on the efficacy of administered vaccines. Certain member s

COVID-19 vaccines: MEPs to debate concerns about virus mutation | News

MEPs will address their questions to experts on COVID-19 variants and the vaccines efficacy against them. On Monday, Members of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee will question representatives from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the efficacy of vaccines against mutations of the COVID-19 virus. The invited experts are: Dr Marco Cavaleri, Head of biological health threats and vaccines strategy and Chair of the COVID-19 Emergency Task Force, EMA Dr Bruno Ciancio, Head of surveillance, ECDC Dr Katherine O’Brien, Department of Immunisation, Vaccines and Biologicals Director, WHO.

MEPs: Put a carbon price on certain EU imports to raise global climate ambition | News

Revenue to be used to step up EU support for the objectives of the Green Deal  The mechanism must not be misused to further trade protectionism  Parliament wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of EU imports ©AFP/GREG BAKER   To raise global climate ambition and prevent ‘carbon leakage’, the EU must place a carbon price on certain imports from less climate-ambitious countries, say MEPs. On Wednesday, Parliament adopted a resolution on a WTO-compatible EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) with 444 votes for, 70 against and 181 abstentions. The resolution underlines that the EU’s increased ambition on climate change must not lead to ‘carbon leakage’ as global climate efforts will not benefit if EU production is just moved to non-EU countries that have less ambitious emissions rules.

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