The Council of the EU approved by written procedure on Friday 9 April additional funding from the EU 2021 budget of €121.5 million to address urgent needs related to the Covid-19 pandemic (see EUROPE B12685A9).
Transfers of appropriations were approved to finance: – preparatory work for digital green certificates to facilitate free circulation during the pandemic; – strengthening the capacity of Member States to detect and monitor new variants of SARS-CoV-2 (‘sequencing’);...