The European Commission decided on Thursday 3 February to extend the legal basis of the EU Covid-19 certificate, which was created in May 2021 on the basis of a regulation that provided for a 12-month duration of this instrument. The Commission has proposed to extend this regulation until 30 June 2023, as it still believes it is impossible to predict the end of the pandemic and to anticipate the curve of Covid-19 infections in 2022, and therefore it considers it necessary to keep this tool.
More than 1.2 billion certificates were issued in the EU and in the 60 or so third countries.
In addition to the extension of the regulation, some amendments are added: - the inclusion of laboratory antigen tests among the types of tests for which a test certificate can be issued; - ensuring that vaccination certificates contain the correct total number of doses administered in any Member State and not only in the issuing Member State, and providing that certificates may be issued to persons participating in clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccines. Link to the amendments: https://aeur.eu/f/5o (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)