The Court of Auditors of the European Union warned yesterday of the lack of specific procedures to have in the long term tools such as the Covid certificate digital to avoid new travel restrictions within the common space in the event of new health crises, given that the mechanism designed for the pandemic will expire in June and its extension would depend on new negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council.
This certificate is the document thate allows travelers to prove that they are immunized against the coronaviruseither for having received the required doses of the vaccine, having recently overcome the infection or, failing that, having a negative test and as the auditors regret, it is the only one of the technical solutions that the Member States applied in a general way, since the rest of measures had an uneven impact.
The audit conclusions reveal that the covid-19 certificate helped to coordinate travel restrictions between Member States and was useful in facilitating travel during the pandemic after the first months of chaos due to the unilateral closures of internal borders and confirm that the European Commission acted quickly to propose suitable technological solutions. However, the use of these tools by EU countries varied significantly, so their impact in facilitating travel was uneven.
