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Good morning, health colleagues, and a warm welcome to the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) update. We have exciting news this morning as an upcoming 2nd Bridging Presidency conference during the Slovenian Presidency of the EU will take place on 1 July, writes EAPM Executive Director Dr. Denis Horgan.
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The theme of EAPM’s 2
nd Bridging Presidency conference, which will be held on Thursday, 1 July, during the auspices of the Slovenia Presidency of the EU, will be ‘
The European Parliament has passed the EU digital COVID Certificate Regulations with 546 votes to 93, and 51 abstentions. The immunity certificate will be issued free of charge by national authorities and will be available in either digital or paper format with a QR code. The purpose of the certification is to ensure travel and economic recovery in the European Union.
The system of the so-called EU “green certificate” will be in place from 1 July 2021 until 1 July 2022. It will exempt its holder from quarantine, entry restrictions and testing. Member states can only impose restrictions if they are necessary and “proportionate to safeguard public health.”
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MEPs completed today the legislative work on the EU digital COVID Certificate package to facilitate travel within the EU and contribute to the economic recovery.
Plenary passed the new EU digital COVID Certificate Regulations with 546 votes to 93 and 51 abstentions (EU citizens) and with 553 to 91 and 46 abstentions (third country nationals).
The certificate will be issued free of charge by national authorities and be available in either digital or paper format containing a QR code. The document will certify that a person has been vaccinated against COVID-19, has a recent negative test result or has recovered from the infection. In practice, these will be three distinct certificates. A common EU framework will make certificates interoperable and verifiable across the European Union, as well as prevent fraud and forgery.
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The European Parliament on Tuesday evening voted on an EU-wide certificate to confirm whether people are immune against the coronavirus or have been tested negative seen as a key step in opening up travel and removing restrictions.
The result of the vote on the digital green certificate was published on Wednesday morning with a large majority of MEPs (546) voting for the measure. Around one million digital certificates have already been issued by Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Poland and Spain.
Member countries must introduce national systems to issue the certificates with a QR code and digital signature that can be scanned for verification. The European Commission has built a gateway through which the certificates can be verified across member states and provided €135m to governments for their national components.