BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) (ITALPRESS) – The negotiators of the European Parliament and Council have reached a provisional agreement on the EU digital Covid Certificate to facilitate free movement during the pandemic. The certificate will be available in both digital and paper format. It will certify whether a person has been vaccinated against the coronavirus or has a recent negative test result or has recovered from the infection. In practice, these are three distinct certificates. The common framework of the European Union will allow member states to issue such certificates which will then be accepted in other EU countries. According to the agreement, the regulation of the EU digital Covid Certificate will remain in force for 12 months. The certificate will not be a precondition for exercising the right to free movement and will not be considered a travel document. To support the availability of “affordable and accessible tests”, the European Commission has committed to mobilize “at least € 100 million” under the Emergency Support Facility for the purchase of tests (swabs) for infection by SARS-CoV-2 for the purpose of issuing EU certificates. This funding should benefit in particular people who cross borders on a daily or frequent basis to go to work or school, visit close relatives, seek medical care, or to take care of loved ones, as well as essential workers. The negotiators agreed that additional funding beyond 100 million could be mobilized if necessary, subject to the approval of the budgetary authorities. EU countries must not impose additional travel restrictions, such as quarantine, self-isolation or tampons, “unless necessary and proportionate to safeguard public health” in response to the COVID pandemic, also taking into account available scientific evidence , “including epidemiological data published by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)”. Such measures should be notified to the other Member States and to the Commission at the latest 48 hours in advance. Under the agreement, EU countries must accept vaccination certificates issued in other member states for people who have received a vaccine authorized by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) (currently Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Janssen) . It will be up to the EU countries to decide whether to also accept certificates of vaccinations carried out with other vaccines used according to national emergency authorization procedures or with those listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for emergency use. (ITALPRESS). sat / com 21-May-21 10:11
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