British drugs firm GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to reduce a contract for the supply of swine flu vaccines to the Dutch government by 30%, or three million doses, saving the Netherlands €21m, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

The government said in March it wanted to sell 21 million unused vaccine doses back to the drugs companies after the epidemic waned and no other country said it wanted to buy them.
In total 257.000 doses have been sold to other countries.
The health ministry has been in talks with GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis since November. Novartis has been unwilling to reduce its contract, the ministry said.
GlaxoSmithKline had been contracted to supply nine million vaccines.
Last June, the government ordered 34 million doses of vaccine, enough for two shots per head of the population. It used almost 11 million in a mass vaccination programme.