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  • Coronavirus: EU countries work on ‘green passport’ scheme to allow travel during pandemic | South China Morning Post
    https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3127536/coronavirus-eu-countries-work-green-passport-scheme-allow-travel

    Coronavirus: EU countries work on ‘green passport’ scheme to allow travel during pandemic. The green passports are to be implemented in a consistent way across borders, Austrian Tourism Minister Elisabeth Koestinger said on Monday Koestinger said border-free travel should be possible again in the European Union by summer, after speaking with her colleagues in France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain
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    The European Union’s transnational vaccine passport is now a definite reality.
    A group of European Union members plans to present a list of priorities for the implementation of a scheme known as the green passport, which would facilitate travel in the bloc despite the coronavirus pandemic. The green passports are to be implemented in a consistent and easy to use way across borders, Austrian Tourism Minister Elisabeth Koestinger said on Monday, after a meeting with 12 other EU tourism ministers in Vienna.
    The green passport is a certificate meant to contain information on the holder’s Covid-19 vaccination and test results or previous infections, to facilitate travel.
    Koestinger said that border-free travel should be possible again in the European Union by summer, after speaking with her colleagues from countries including France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain.She also called for consistent criteria for entry requirements across the EU, for instance regarding the acceptance of a negative coronavirus test to allow travel.
    Austria is especially dependent on tourism and has pushed for the EU’s green passport project.“The green passport should be valid and readable at every airport and every hotel in Europe,” Koestinger said.Italy’s tourist industry struggles to survive – ‘even George Clooney doesn’t come any more’ amid the coronavirus pandemicKoestinger said the planned time frame for implementing the passport, which is expected to be be released at the European level on June 1, was ambitious.Germany’s tourism commissioner Thomas Bareiss said Germany fully supported the goal of implementing the passport by June, adding that the certificate using a bar code would bring a basis for security and freedom.Bareiss said the passport should be available to everyone. “In terms of technical access, but also the fact that we need to offer all people a vaccine.”In Austria, a first version is already to be introduced at the end of April, including coronavirus test results. It could be used, for example, to allow visits to the hairdresser.

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