The vaccine was “well-tolerated” in children and there were no “major concerns” in terms of side effects, the Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency said.
Germany has said it will start vaccinating children over the age of 12 from June 7 following the authorization by the EMA.
The United States and Canada have both already authorized the vaccine for children of the same age.
“As anticipated, the EMA’s Committee for Human Medicines has today approved the use of the vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech in adolescents from 12 to 15 years,” Marco Cavaleri, the EMA’s head of vaccine strategy, told journalists.