In force since October 17, 2020 (after a first period, between March 24 and July 10, 2020), the state of health emergency will end in France on September 30, after a transitional period.
So decided the Parliament which definitively adopted the text, this Thursday, after a final vote of the Senate this Thursday and the National Assembly Tuesday.
It is this same text which provides for the implementation of the health pass from June 9, in certain places.
The transitional regime provided for in this text provides a legal framework for the deconfinement measures announced by the executive, without lowering our guard against the hypothesis of an epidemic resumption. It will end on September 30, and not the end of October as the executive had wished.
The text had been significantly altered after its passage through the hands of parliamentarians of the two assemblies.
Deputies and senators in particular noted the limitation of the use of curfews and confinements within the framework of this transitional regime.
The first remains possible and planned for the next 30 days from June 1.
After this period, if the executive plans to use it again, it will then again have to declare a state of emergency for a period limited to 30 days before, possibly, returning to Parliament.
Furthermore, at the initiative of the Senate, the local reconfigurations provided for by law can only be decided for a maximum of one month without the Parliament being consulted.
A health pass for large gatherings
On the sensitive aspect of the health pass, deputies and senators validated the contributions voted by the two chambers. Introduced by the government by amendment to the National Assembly, the “sanitary pass” will be limited to large gatherings, such as festivals, and subject to a series of measures limiting attacks on individual freedoms. It will also be limited in time, until September 30. The senators also obtained that it could be implemented only in places which do not make it possible to ensure compliance with barrier gestures. Only authorized persons may carry out checks. The "sanitary pass" may also be imposed for travel between France and Corsica or overseas.
The text is not at the end of the process, however. The deputies of the left (GDR, LFI, SOC) had already announced that they will seize the Constitutional Council, judging that this text "gives very important powers to the government on bases much too vague and imprecise".