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Exhibit 10.1
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filed separately with the Commission
LICENSE AGREEMENT
This Agreement is made effective on December 22 ,
2006 by and between Viragen International, Inc., a company
incorporated in Delaware, USA with its principal offices located at
865 SW 78 th Avenue, Plantation, Florida, USA, and its Affiliates and
Subsidiaries (VGN) and Orphan Australia Proprietary Limited, a
company incorporated in Victoria, Australia with its principal
offices located at 48 Kangan Drive, Berwick Victoria 3806,
Australia, and its Affiliates and Subsidiaries (OA);
WHEREAS:
VGN has successfully developed and registered the human
prescription biologic Multiferon® (the "Product") in Sweden and
other countries and desires to license the exclusive rights to
register, market, sell and distribute the Product throughout the
Territory as defined herein to OA; and,
OA is engaged in the business of development, sales, marketing
and distribution of prescription products throughout the Territory
and desires to license the Product from VGN for the exclusive
rights to market, sell and distribute the Product throughout the
Territory as defined herein; now,
VGN and OA (hereinafter the "Parties") hereby agree to the terms
and conditions stated herein governing this License Agreement.
Article 1: Definitions
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"Affiliates and Subsidiaries" shall
mean the entities owning, owned by, controlling or controlled by
the respective Parties to this Agreement, and which may be involved
in the performance of this Agreement on behalf of either
Party.
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"Agreement" shall mean this agreement,
including all Exhibits, and including the Safety and Technical
Agreements, as amended from time to time, in accordance with the
terms herein.
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" Amendment" shall mean a mutually agreed
upon and documented change to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, including its Exhibits, executed in writing and signed
by authorized representatives of each Party to this Agreement in
advance of the effective date of such change(s).
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" Annual Product Forecast " shall mean the
amount of the Products that represents OA’s best estimates of
SKUs it expects to purchase from VGN during a continuous 12-month
period, and as reported to VGN in advance on a calendar quarter
basis as described herein.
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"Approved Indication(s)" shall mean the
precise and written descriptions for use as defined by the
Registrations, the Market Authorizations and as may otherwise be
defined by the Registration Authorities in the Countries within
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Territory. Approved Indication(s) shall be
specified in Exhibits to this Agreement, as samples of approved
Product labeling, translated into English for
convenience.
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"Clinical Trial" shall mean the
subjecting of humans to the Product as described by a study
protocol required by Registration Authorities in the
Territory.
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"CTD Dossier" shall mean the entire
collection of descriptive methods of chemistry, manufacturing and
controls (CMC) employed by VGN in the development, processing,
manufacture, clinical trials and testing of Product that is the
subject of this Agreement. The CTD Dossier forms the basis of the
Registration referred to in 1.28.
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"Confidential Information" shall mean
all information of a confidential nature relating to either
Party’s business disclosed by a Party to the other either
orally, in writing or in any other tangible form, including the
terms of this Agreement and all matters related to or associated
with this Agreement.
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"Country(ies)" shall mean each
individual geographic region included in the Territory which has
its own reimbursement authority and governing body(ies) that are
charged with reviewing and approving a Market Authorization to
permit marketing of the Product within its boundaries. For the
avoidance of doubt, the Countries shall mean those specified in
Exhibit 2 to this Agreement, and any Amendments thereto.
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"Requested Delivery Date" shall mean a
calendar date upon which OA wishes VGN to make Product available
for shipment as communicated by OA under a Purchase Order
("PO").
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"Effective Date" shall mean the latest
date upon which this License Agreement, the Safety Agreement and
the Technical Agreement was last signed by either Party to these
Agreements.
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"Exhibit" shall mean a written and
mutually agreed upon attachment to this Agreement specifying
certain terms, conditions, descriptions, specifications and details
pertaining to this Agreement, and incorporated to this Agreement by
reference.
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"Expiration Date" shall mean the date
which shall be specified by VGN as the last date upon which the
Product shall be assured to meet the Approved Product
Specifications when stored, handled and used in accordance with its
labeling, as approved in the Registrations. The Expiration Date
shall be incorporated into Product labeling and packaging and shall
be assigned for each Product Lot Number.
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"License Fee" shall mean the up front
fee payable pursuant to Article 2 as specified in Exhibit 1 and
Amendments thereto.
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"Licensed Marks" shall mean registered
and unregistered trademarks copyrights and/or designs used by VGN
in relation to the Product and hereby licensed to OA under this
Agreement within the Territory attached hereto as Exhibit
3.
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"Lot Number" shall mean the unique and
identifying code, comprised of alpha and/or numeric figures,
assigned by Viragen to identify a distinct and separate quantity of
Product units that are manufactured under consistent and continuous
processes, and as defined by Swedish Registration Authorities, the
European Good Manufacturing Practices and/or the relevant
regulations in the Countries in the Territory. The Lot Number shall
appear on each unit of Product, in the Product labeling and on
Product packaging as approved in the Registrations.
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"Market Authorization" shall mean the
valid documented approval by the Registration Authority in each
Country within the Territory permitting OA to commence selling,
marketing and distributing the Product
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" Marketing Plan(s)" shall mean the
documented list and timing of actions that OA will take in order to
successfully achieve or exceed the Annual Product Forecast in each
Country, or groups of Countries, in the Territory.
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"Milestone Payment" shall mean a
payment due from OA to VGN upon achievement of a specific event as
described in Exhibit 1.
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"Parties" shall mean parties to this
Agreement including VGN and OA, and their respective Affiliates,
and Party shall mean the singular as appropriate.
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"Product Improvements" shall mean any
modification or change to the Product, whether in physical
properties or appearance, qualitative or quantitative description,
packaging or clinical indication for use, while maintaining the
description "multi-subtype, human alpha interferon injection" and
conforming to the Approved Product Specifications as defined in
Exhibit 4 to this Agreement, as may be amended from time to
time.
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"Product Recall" shall mean the
deliberate retrieval and recovery or recall from the Territory of
warehoused, distributed, marketed or sold Product due to a serious
deficiency in the quality or purity of the Product as determined by
testing or inspection according to the Registration or as
determined by reports of unanticipated adverse patient reactions
specifically due to use of the Product.
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"Approved Product Specifications" shall
mean the scientific, quantitative and qualitative descriptions of
the Product, with respect to chemical, biological, microbiological
and physical properties of the Product as put forth in the
Registration in the Territory, and as may be amended from time to
time in accordance with the applicable regulations by the
Registration Authorities, and based on Exhibit 4.
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"Product" shall mean the finished
biological material, in finished packaged and labeled form and
meeting the Approved Product Specifications as defined by the
Registration in the Territory, and as sold by VGN to OA,
corresponding to the brand Multiferon®, multi-subtype, human
interferon alpha injection.
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"PO" shall mean a legally binding
Purchase Order initiated by OA and submitted to VGN in advance,
specifying quantities of Product it wishes to purchase from VGN and
the Requested Delivery Date upon which OA desires VGN to make
Product available for collection by OA or its carrier, according to
the terms and conditions specified herein.
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"Purchase Price" shall mean the price
at which VGN agrees to sell the Product to OA, expressed in
Australian Dollars (AUD), and as set forth in Exhibit 1 to this
Agreement.
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"Registration Authority(ies)" shall
mean those agencies, bodies or organizations designated by local
laws and regulations in each of the Countries in the Territory and
charged with controlling the development, selling, marketing and
distribution of prescription products for human use. For avoidance
of doubt, all regulatory authorities shall be included in the use
of this term, including authorities governing compliance, ongoing
reporting and variations or changes to the Registration.
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"Registration(s)" shall mean the
dossier(s) of scientific documentation, qualitative and
quantitative data and clinical information that is required by
Registration Authorities as documented evidence of the safety and
efficacy of the Product when used for its intended
purpose(s).
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"Reimbursement Authorization" shall
mean the documented national approval of the application, or
approval of revisions to the application, submitted by OA in each
Country in the Territory that request the setting of a
reimbursement price for the Product in that Country. For avoidance
of confusion this date shall be the Listing date, that is, the date
from which the Product is available to patients at the reimbursed
price.
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"Safety Agreement" shall mean the
agreement between the Parties that describes in sufficient detail
the obligations of VGN and OA with respect to the handling and
reporting of customer complaints, adverse events and the associated
communications with Registration Authorities, attached hereto and
incorporated by reference.
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"Shipment Date" shall mean that date on
which VGN transfers Products ordered by OA to the designated
carrier for transport to OA.
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"(SKUs)" shall mean the Stock Keeping
Unit of measure OA intends to use to track its purchases and sales
of the Product, typically the smallest quantity of Product that OA
will actually transfer to its customers in the act of making a
sale. The SKU for the Product is defined in Exhibit 5.
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"Technical Agreement" shall mean the
agreement between the Parties that describes in sufficient detail
the obligations of VGN and OA with respect to the manufacturing,
testing, delivery, sampling, inspection and release of the Product,
attached hereto and incorporated by reference.
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"Term" shall mean the length of time
during which this Agreement shall remain in effect, and shall be
not less than ten (10) years from the Effective Date of this
Agreement, or for a longer period as may be mutually agreed by the
Parties and documented in the form of an Amendment to this
Agreement.
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"Termination" shall mean the halting of
activities in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
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"Territory" shall mean those specific
geographical areas defined by the Country name, or as may be
mutually agreed upon by the Parties, constituting the boundaries
within which the Product may be developed, sold, marketed and
distributed and as further described in Exhibit 2.
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Article 2: License Fee and Milestone
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In consideration for VGN granting exclusive
rights to the patents, trademark and know-how related to the
Product to OA for the express purposes of filing applications for
Market Authorization and Reimbursement Authorization and for
marketing, selling and distributing the Product in the Territory
under the terms and conditions herein, OA shall pay to VGN a
License Fee and Milestone Payments for the Territory in accordance
with Exhibit 1.
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Article 3: Registration of the
Product
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The Parties will cooperate with one another on
the filing for registration targeting the applicable Countries
within the Territory. [
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VGN shall be responsible for the creation and
maintenance of the Registration Dossier, including all clinical
trial protocols and reports, any variations or modifications and
for maintaining its facilities, processes and documentation in
compliance with the applicable regulations [
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OA will act as the local sponsor of the
registration, [
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to achieve Market Authorization throughout the Territory at the
earliest possible date.
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Article 4: Market Analysis/Marketing
Plans
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OA has prepared a preliminary market analysis for
the Territory indicating that there is sufficient economic
viability to warrant the process of developing, selling, marketing
and distributing the Product.
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OA agrees to conduct periodic market analyses in
the Territory and to report the same to VGN, in a form and on a
schedule mutually agreeable to the Parties, in support of the
Product throughout the Term of this Agreement, and shall conduct
these market analyses no less frequently than annually following
market launch. Periodic market analyses shall be used to update the
Marketing Plans and the Annual Product Forecast.
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After receipt of Market Authorization in a
Country in the Territory and prior to receipt of Reimbursement
Authorization in that Country, OA will submit to VGN for its review
and approval the Marketing Plan for the Country, or groups of
Countries as the Parties may agree. Between the date of
Reimbursement Authorization and actual commencing of selling the
Product, the Marketing Plan may be modified or updated, as the
Parties may mutually agree. The Marketing Plan shall be in a form
mutually agreeable to the Parties, but shall contain the following
minimum information:
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Total number of sales representatives that will
sell the Product in each Country in the Territory
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Planned call positioning and selling messages for
the Product;
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Total monthly planned physician and hospital
calls;
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Annual advertising and promotional plan (journal
ads, professional meetings, focus groups, peer-to-peer selling,
etc.);
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Reporting formats for tracking sales call
activity and sales results.
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Plans for applying for reimbursement in each
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VGN shall provide comments and recommendations
for modifications to the Marketing Plan no later than ten
(10) calendar days from the date of receipt.
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OA shall review VGN’s comments and
recommendations for changes to Marketing Plans and shall endeavor
to integrate VGN’s recommendations to the extent reasonable
to meet the Annual Product Forecast. OA shall be responsible for
executing the Marketing Plan.
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VGN shall have prior approval authority for
certain aspects of any Marketing Plan, which shall
include;
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Use of Licensed Marks
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Design of labeling and packaging (with respect to
physical parameters only, to ensure appropriateness with approved
manufacturing processes and compliance with the
Registration).
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Following achievement of Reimbursement
Authorization and market launch, OA shall report to VGN within 30
days of the end of each calendar quarter throughout the Term,
excluding any initial partial quarter, the sales results during the
quarter, its adherence to the Marketing Plan, its progress in
executing the Marketing Plan and any deviations from the Marketing
Plan for each Country in the Territory, or groups of Countries as
mutually agreed by the Parties.
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OA will develop and execute the Marketing Plan
according to reasonable efforts. The Parties recognize that the
plan may change on an ongoing basis and that execution of aspects
of the Plan may not be possible due to changing market conditions,
and that counter plans may be implemented instead. Such changes to
the Marketing Plan may or may not allow sufficient time for the
Parties to renegotiate a revised Marketing Plan. The Parties
therefore agree to regularly review the Marketing Plan. [
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The Marketing Plan for each Country, or group of
Countries, in the Territory shall be reviewed and updated at least
every twelve (12) months by OA, whereby OA shall submit
updates to VGN and VGN shall have ten (10) calendar days to
provide comments and recommendations for changes to OA, in
accordance with Article 4.4.
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Upon completion of the Registration documentation
for each Country agreed by the Parties, VGN will assist OA and use
its best endeavors to ensure the timely filing for Market
Authorization in each Country in the Territory.
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OA shall be responsible for filing the
Registration with the Registration Authorities in each Country in
the Territory on as timely a basis as possible.
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OA shall be responsible for responding to any
questions from the Registration Authorities including the
submission of any documentation that may be required and may be
provided by VGN. VGN will provide technical support where
necessary.
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VGN shall be responsible for all costs billed by
the Registration Authorities and paid by OA upon presentation of
copies of original invoices redacted for other products included on
the same invoices, including post-registration variations, GMP
clearance renewals, annual fees and charges, but excluding any fees
associated with permitting OA to conduct its business in the
Territory. All invoices will be paid by VGN within thirty
(30) calendar days of receipt by VGN.
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Article 6: Market Authorization
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Upon receipt of Market Authorization, OA shall
notify VGN immediately in writing and provide copies of any and all
documentation specifying the approval.
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OA and VGN will cooperate with one another on the
development and issuance of a joint press release to announce this
important milestone to the public and respective
stockholders.
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OA shall be responsible for communicating with
each Country’s reimbursement agency and for filing the
reimbursement application. VGN shall assist OA in the reimbursement
application process by providing all available information,
including information with which it has secured Reimbursement
Authorization in Sweden. Upon receipt of written confirmation of
Reimbursement Authorization, OA shall provide copies of such
authorization to VGN within three (3) days of
receipt.
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VGN will acknowledge receipt of notification of
Reimbursement Authorization in writing.
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OA will submit, if it has not already done so,
copies of final labeling, including printed packaging and shipping
materials to VGN for its final review and approval and for ordering
such materials for each Country or groups of Countries in the
Territory. VGN will be responsible for ordering and stocking of all
printed labeling for the Product.
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OA will determine and communicate to VGN its
desired date to officially initiate the market launch of the
Product in each Country in the Territory.
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VGN will confirm its ability to provide suitable
quantities of Product prior to the intended launch date, or will
work with OA to determine an alternate date that is most suitable.
VGN will take all reasonable steps within its control to ensure
that it supplies Product according to OA’s desired launch
date.
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Article 7: Annual Product
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[
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first PO for the Product, for the Country. As other Countries are
approved for reimbursement, these will be added to the Annual
Product Forecast. The Parties may agree to consolidate groups of
Countries into regions for the purpose of creating and updating the
Annual Product Forecast. In the event individual Countries are
added after other Countries are already approved, and provided the
labeling and packaging are in a common language, the Parties may
agree to limit the requirement for submission of a Country-specific
PO and instead simply add to planned POs for purchases of Product.
This allowance does not apply to the Annual Product
Forecast.
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The Annual Product Forecast will represent
OA’s best estimate, to its reasonable knowledge, of the
quantities of Product it expects to order from VGN during the
subsequent 12-month period, expressed on a calendar quarter basis,
and for each Country in the Territory. This stipulation applies
only to those Countries that require labeling in a different
language. Where more than one Country requires the same language
for labeling and packaging materials, these Countries may be
grouped together with respect to the Annual Product
Forecast.
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The Annual Product Forecast shall be expressed in
SKUs, with one SKU representing the smallest quantity OA plans to
sell to any third party (e.g., a carton, a case, etc.), and shall
be a non-binding forecast.
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The Annual Product Forecast shall be in a format
mutually agreeable to the Parties and shall be communicated via
hard copy, via electronic mail, or via
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facsimile to VGN at its ViraNative, AB facility
in Umeå, Sweden. VGN shall confirm receipt of the Annual
Product Forecast, in writing to OA, along with any questions or
comments.
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No later than thirty (30) calendar days
prior to the end of each subsequent calendar quarter, OA will
update the Annual Product Forecast and submit the update to VGN.
These quarterly updates are intended to provide OA with the
opportunity to regularly communicate changes in demand for the
Product and to provide VGN with as much prior notice as possible
that changes in manufacturing schedules may be
necessary.
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In the event OA becomes aware of significant and
immediate market dynamics that cause it to believe that a change in
the Annual Product Forecast should be urgently communicated to VGN,
OA may submit a non-scheduled, updated Annual Product Forecast at
its own discretion and to which VGN will respond on a timely basis
in the spirit of cooperation.
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VGN will use commercially reasonable efforts to
maintain sufficient manufacturing capacity to supply OA with its
requirements according to the Annual Product Forecast and updates
thereto. In order to ensure OA has adequate inventory to fulfill
its Annual Product Forecasts, frequent communications are
desirable.
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No later than thirty (30) calendar days
before the beginning of each calendar quarter, or more frequently,
as agreed between the Parties, beginning on or prior to the
anticipated date of Reimbursement Authorization in a Country in the
Territory and continuing throughout the Term of this Agreement, OA
will submit a PO to VGN at its ViraNative AB subsidiary location in
Umeå, Sweden, specifying the quantities of Product it will
require for the subsequent calendar quarter, and will specify the
Requested Delivery Date(s) for quantities ordered. VGN will confirm
receipt and acceptance of all POs in writing.
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The maximum time required by VGN, from the date
of receipt of a PO from OA to the date the first quantity of
Product is shipped from the manufacturing facility is [
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In the event VGN confirms receipt of a PO and
fails to ship quantities [
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between the Parties excluding reasons of Force Majeure as further
defined in Article 22), VGN shall be assessed a late-delivery
penalty.
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The late-delivery penalty shall be [
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exceeds the [
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shall not exceed the total invoice price.
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The SKU for the Product and the minimum
quantities of SKUs to be provided to OA are specified in Exhibit 5
to this Agreement. Any changes to these must be agreed by both
Parties and OA agrees that its purchase quantities will comply with
these minimum quantities and will construct its POs accordingly,
however the Parties agree that it may be necessary for OA to
purchase quantities of Product less than the minimum quantity in
the Initial Period in accordance with Article 8.11.
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Once a PO is confirmed as received by VGN, such
PO is binding and OA may not change or cancel that PO for any
reason, except in the case of any material breach of this Agreement
by VGN. Such confirmation must be sent by VGN within 7
days.
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VGN may not cancel any confirmed PO received from
OA, except in the case of any material breach of this Agreement by
OA.
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The Purchase Price for the Products will be that
price in effect on the date each quantity is shipped from VGN and
as specified in Exhibit 1 and in Amendments thereto.
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OA, at its sole discretion, will select a carrier
for temperature-controlled transport of Product to its distribution
warehouse(s) from VGN’s manufacturing site in Umeå,
Sweden. Title to Product will pass to OA at the time the Product is
delivered to the carrier on the Shipment Date.
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VGN will package Product for shipping in
appropriate insulated containers with frozen gel packs and a
calibrated temperature logger to document temperature during
shipment. Should the Parties agree on a different method of
packaging the Product for shipment, an Amendment will be added to
the Approved Product Specifications identifying the details of such
changes.
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OA will be responsible for payment of all
transport costs, including export/import fees, duties, taxes,
insurance, Australian Quarantine Inspection Service permits and any
other costs necessary to transport the Product. OA shall supply the
Australian Quarantine Inspection Service permits to VGN with each
PO and VGN shall complete the Australian Quarantine Inspection
Service permits required for shipment of Product and shall supply
such permits with the Product at the time of shipment to
OA.
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Product manufactured by VGN is
temperature-sensitive and is labeled with temperature storage
requirements, in accordance with Registrations. OA acknowledges
this fact and will take this into account when selecting and
contracting with a carrier so that Product handled by that carrier
is not adulterated via improper storage and shipping conditions
with respect to temperature controls. VGN shall not be liable for
any damage to Product, concealed or otherwise, that is due to
handling, storage or shipping conditions by the carrier selected by
OA or by OA itself.
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Information marked below by a [
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filed separately with the Commission
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VGN shall include with each shipment, and for
each Product Lot Number, a certificate of analysis document
specifying that the Product has been manufactured in accordance
with the relevant Registration and meets the Approved Product
Specifications and as directed by the Technical Agreement between
the Parties and attached hereto.
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For the first shipment of Product to OA after the
Effective Date, VGN shall supply stock with a remaining shelf-life
of a minimum of [
], but for subsequent shipments, VGN shall provide stock of Product
with a remaining shelf-life of a minimum of [
], furthermore the time period in which this [
] shall apply shall be mutually agreed upon between the Parties and
is defined as the ‘Initial Period’. After the Initial
Period, the Product shelf-life supplied to OA [
]. Failure to comply with this and resulting in OA to be left with
out-of-expiry stock will entitle OA to a credit for such
stock.
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The Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch (PBB)
obligates sponsors to provide them with 6 months notification of
lack of supply or cessation of supply of product that has received
Reimbursement Authorisation and that failure to do so will incur
financial penalty. VGN is thus obligated to provide OA six months
notice of lack of supply or cessation of supply of the
Product.
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In relation to clause 8.12, where VGN does not
provide such necessary information to OA and OA incurs a penalty
from the PBB, OA reserves the right to recoup the penalty fee which
it has suffered.
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VGN shall not be obligated to accept or supply
any orders for Products that are in excess of one hundred and
thirty percent (130%) of the average quantities of Products
ordered during the two preceding calendar quarters.
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OA and VGN shall each have the right to inspect
the other’s facilities, including manufacturing sites,
warehouses, distribution centers, laboratories and other areas that
are pertinent to the performance of this Agreement, and as
specified under the Technical Agreement between the
Parties.
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Each Party shall provide sufficient notice of its
intent to conduct facility inspections at least sixty
(60) days prior to the intended inspection date.
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Facility inspections may be carried out only
during normal operating hours and on normal operating days for each
facility and in each geographic location.
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The Parties agree to follow the respective
standard operating procedures in effect at facilities to be
inspected with respect to escorts, requests for documents and any
other aspects pertaining to facility inspections that may be in
effect or revised from time to time. No photographs or films of any
type shall be permitted of the respective facilities.
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Upon completion of any such inspection, the
Parties shall meet to discuss any relevant findings from such
inspections.
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In the event any documented report is generated
as the result of facility inspection, each Party will ensure that
the other party receives a full and complete copy of such
documentation for its records and shall ensure such documentation
is conspicuously marked as "Confidential".
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OA, at its sole discretion, may elect to inspect,
or have inspected, any shipment of Product from VGN, within 30 days
of receipt, to determine compliance with the Approved Product
Specifications.
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OA shall ensure that any such inspection is in
accordance with the methods and procedures of analysis that are
approved in the Registration for the Territory.
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9.4
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OA will notify VGN in writing of inspection
results that meet Approved Product Specifications, for each Product
lot number it receives, should it elect to inspect such
Product.
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In the event that OA determines that any shipment
of Product fails to meet the Approved Product Specifications,
excluding
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