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With vaccinated European travellers separated from non-vaccinated, infected from non-infected, and immune from non-immune—the digital green certificate, if applied, would be a guarantee of discrimination within the EU (Photo: wfbakker2)

Legal worries on EU's 'green certificates' for Covid travel

An instrument of unusual significance is quietly on its way to becoming law in Europe: the proposal for a 'Digital Green Certificate' (DGC). Up for a vote in the European Parliament's plenary on Wednesday, it erects a "universal framework" for the control of disease within the Schengen area.

The EU Commission has presented it as a return to freedom of movement, essentially suspended by member states since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic.

However the DGC, w...

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Ciarán McCollum is a Belfast-based Northern Irish barrister, advising on European law.

With vaccinated European travellers separated from non-vaccinated, infected from non-infected, and immune from non-immune—the digital green certificate, if applied, would be a guarantee of discrimination within the EU (Photo: wfbakker2)

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Ciarán McCollum is a Belfast-based Northern Irish barrister, advising on European law.

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