Mandatory testing upon entering the Netherlands | Inland

That is what the outgoing cabinet has decided. At the same time, the color codes for the travel advice change. The Dutch are no longer advised to travel to EU countries with a high number of corona infections. A country can only be put on orange or red if worrying virus variants appear. From Tuesday, all EU countries will be on yellow or green.

According to the government, the Dutch travel advice is more in line with that of other EU countries. “We are increasingly protected. This means that we can look again at the travel policy, so we hope to be able to offer more certainty for people who want to leave,” says outgoing corona minister De Jonge.

The reason for the change is that more than half of the adults in the Netherlands have been fully vaccinated, that the pressure on hospitals is manageable despite the high number of infections and that the EU works with the Digital Corona Certificate (DCC). With the adjustment of the travel advice, De Jonge believes it will offer holidaymakers ‘more clarity and certainty’.

Incidentally, it is possible that EU countries themselves take additional measures for travelers from the Netherlands. The cabinet therefore still refers to the website Wijsopreis.nl, where the measures are indicated per country.

Quarantine not required

The rule will come into effect on August 8 for all EU countries, but already applies to people coming from Spain, Portugal, Cyprus or Andorra. Those countries are now red, but that will be yellow from 8 August.

Holidaymakers who have been to a country with a yellow travel advice are advised to take a self-test on the day of arrival and on the fifth day back in the Netherlands or to have themselves tested at the GGD.

People who have been to an EU country are not obliged to go into quarantine, except in a country where a new variant of the corona virus has emerged. “Where we now work with yellow and orange, we will no longer designate an EU member state as orange,” says Minister De Jonge. “Although that could happen again if a new virus variant comes out.”

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