The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare (EDQM) (https://bit.ly/2W5Vaos) is a fully fledged service within the Council of Europe (COE). Its role, although discreet in the eyes of the general public, is essential, since it coordinates the laboratories responsible for checking batches of Covid-19 vaccine.
The remit of this Directorate, which has its own building close to the flagship and the European Court of Human Rights, derives from the Convention on the...