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It is true that it will enter into force only as of July 1. After all, Thursday’s deal has not yet been formally approved by the EP, which should take place in plenary on June 7-10 in Strasbourg. States will then be given time to establish the necessary infrastructure.
“White smoke,” EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said on his Twitter account on Thursday (white smoke starts to smoke after the election of a new pope). “We have an agreement on the EU digital certificate for COVID proposed by the Commission.”
On Thursday the fourth negotiation session between MEPs and Portuguese diplomats who hold the EU presidency this semester took place.
MEPs have agreed to speed up the examination of the issue to speed up the approval procedure, which can normally take months or even years. The Council of the EU confirmed position a month ago the EP did the same followed at the end of April.
“We will not repeat the nightmare of the summer of 2020”
Creating such a certificate is still a struggle proposed by the European Commission (EC). Point to to facilitate travel within the EU, thus helping the tourism sector, which has been greatly affected by the pandemic, people who live on the border and work in the neighboring country, and family members excluded from the restrictions.
“This will definitely change the summer of 2021 and we will not repeat the nightmare of the summer of 2020,” Juan Juan Fernand López Aguilar, Spanish chairman of the PE LIBE negotiating committee, said at a press conference Thursday night.
The certificate will make it easier for people to travel during the holiday season and for countries that rely heavily on tourism to save their economies. Initially, it will only be used to travel within the block. However, the EC seeks mutual recognition of these certificates by third countries, in particular the United States.
Although the certificate must be digital and accessible via a smartphone application (developed by German companies T-Systems and SAP), it will also be available on paper.
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