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the-dude
Context : EU is heavily disappointed because AZ does not deliver the full contract due to production problems.

AZ claims to have only signed for the best effort to deliver.

the-dude
Reading it while having lunch, the money shot is on page 2 :

WHEREAS, as part of that scale-up, AstraZeneca has committed to use its Best Reasonable Efforts (as defined below) to build capacity to manufacture 300 million Doses of the Vaccine, at no profit and no loss to AstraZeneca, at the total cost currently estimated to be Euros for distribution within the EU (the “Initial Europe Doses”), with an option for the Commission, acting on behalf of the Participating Member States, to order an additional 100 million Doses (the “Optional Doses”).

Will study the definition of the BRE now.

edit : the defition of the BRE is on page 3, and it is nothing special.

cbg0
> EU is heavily disappointed because AZ does not deliver the full contract due to production problems

They're disappointed because there is a reason to believe these are only false claims while AZ might in fact be exporting vaccines to non-EU countries to make some extra money and under-delivering to the EU.

the-dude
Could please provide sources for these claims?

edit: And if these claims would be really true, what is the point of publishing the contract?

cbg0
It's been speculated in the press, and likely why the European Commission is looking into potentially restricting vaccine exports to non-EU countries (https://apnews.com/article/europe-coronavirus-pandemic-coron...).

They aren't directly accusing them, but you have to read between the lines a bit.

the-dude
No matter how hard I squint, I can't find the reason to believe these are only false claims ( your words ).

What I do read between the lines that the EU is doing a best effort to deflect blame on AZ.