The EU has proposed that developing countries be allowed to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines, softening its defence of drug companies’ intellectual property.
Valdis Dombrovskis, trade commissioner, who had opposed a plan to reduce IP protection, has now said he could support limited exemptions.
India and South Africa are pushing for the abolition of IP controls, so domestic producers could replicate products from the likes of AstraZeneca and Pfizer without paying them royalties.
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