Representatives of the EU Member States in the ‘eHealth’ network adopted on 22 April guidelines describing the main technical specifications for the implementation of the digital green certificate, which is currently under discussion. The deployment of digital green certificates is planned by June 2021.
The “agreed technical specification covers the data structure and encoding mechanisms, including the QR code, which will ensure that all certificates, whether digital or paper, can be read and verified throughout the EU”, the Commission said in a statement.
The guidelines also describe “an EU gateway” allowing the sharing of “electronic signature keys so that the authenticity of digital green certificates can be verified throughout the EU”. “No personal data of certificate holders will pass through the gateway, as it is not needed for verification”, the EU institution said.
The document also covers software to issue digital green certificates or applications to verify their authenticity.
The European Parliament is also busy preparing its negotiating mandate on the digital green certificate, which it is due to adopt next week in plenary, with amendments from some groups focusing on the risk of discrimination against non-vaccinated people.
Link to the guidelines: https://bit.ly/3gtag2z (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)