The European Commission acknowledged a “mistake” on Monday 1 February regarding its initial decision of 29 January—withdrawn the same evening—to include the nation of Northern Ireland in the list of jurisdictions and non-Member States affected by the vaccine export authorisation mechanism (see EUROPE B12647A2).
This initial choice led it to briefly trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol contained in the agreement on an orderly withdrawal of the UK from the EU. This...