French vaccine company Valneva SE (Nasdaq:VALN; Euronext Paris:VLA) is hoping to change the European Commission’s (EC) mind after regulators notified the firm that they intend to terminate an Advance Purchase Agreement (APA) for its inactivated whole-virus COVID-19 vaccine candidate VLA2001.
VALN shares fell 15% to $20.00.
In February, Valneva announced that it expected authorization for the vaccine in the European Union in April. Regulators from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) had sent the company several questions about the vaccine candidate. Valneva said then that it swiftly answered them.
EMA accepted the filing of the Marketing Authorization Application on May 19.
After the European Commission received Valneva’s remediation plan, Valneva hopes to have further discussions with regulators interested in its inactivated, adjuvanted whole-virus vaccine.
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