Ahead of a recent matchmaking event created with the aim of supporting the acceleration and upscale of COVID-19 vaccine production, the European Commission stipulated certain safeguards in a comfort letter issued to the organisers. Our latest client alert serves as a useful reminder of the practical safeguards that should always be in place when companies, and in particular competing companies, meet to discuss legitimate cooperation projects.
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