The government is considering a rapid procedure to adopt the text transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass which will be presented Monday, December 27 in the Council of Ministers.
- Unlike the health pass which could be issued following a test, the vaccine pass will require a complete vaccination cycle
- The government hopes that the legislative course of the law which must introduce the vaccination pass will allow its implementation from January 15
- The health pass for companies could be reintroduced into the law through an amendment by deputies
The acceleration desired by the government for the transformation of the health pass into a vaccination pass is confirmed: the text which plans to limit the precious sesame to people who have received a complete cycle of vaccination and therefore to exclude the non-vaccinated who had access to it. to this pass with a test of less than 24 hours will be presented on Monday, December 27 in the Council of Ministers. It should be examined in committee at the National Assembly on Wednesday December 29 and then submitted to senators from January 15. Objective of this “express” procedure, to allow the entry into force of the vaccination pass on January 15.
From this date, it will therefore be necessary to meet the conditions for granting this pass for access to leisure activities, restaurants and bars, fairs and exhibitions and interregional rail or air transport. But, faced with the surge in positive tests – “The worst figures since the start of the epidemic”, according to Olivier Véran – the implementation of this vaccine pass could also be accompanied by the obligation to present IN ADDITION a negative test to access certain places. What the government calls an “accumulation of supporting documents” which would be implemented “when the interest of public health and the state of the health situation” would justify it. The details of these conditions are not specified in the text of the bill.
A “quasi confinement” for the non-vaccinated
This bill presented by the government as a response to the “consequences of the epidemic on the healthcare system” and which results, as it claims, in “virtual confinement” for the six million French people who are not yet vaccinated. , could also provide for aggravation of the sanctions to limit the phenomenon of fraud from “false passes”. Above all, it should authorize the people responsible for controlling the presentation of the vaccination pass to control the identity of its holder, an eventuality against which voices have already been raised among the professions concerned, in particular among restaurateurs. These checks were until now only possible by members of the police and gendarmerie forces.
An amendment to the health pass at work?
On the other hand, the idea considered for a time to impose a health pass – and not the vaccination pass, which would have allowed the solution, of the test of less than 24 hours – for access to work in companies did not not included in the original text. This does not mean that the measure is definitively abandoned since the deputies could reintroduce it in the text presented to the vote in the National Assembly within the framework of an amendment. The discussions that took place on this subject between the Minister of Labor and the social partners showed that the latter were very reserved on this point. A posture that should not change at a time when forecasts on the evolution of the epidemic in the days and weeks to come raise fears of a possible blockage in the functioning of the country and when the example of companies having already imposed this pass shows that it is not without negative consequences on the organization of work.
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