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Palmer: Enforcement of compulsory vaccination is unproblematic

2022-01-15T10:47:25.229Z


Palmer: Enforcement of compulsory vaccination is unproblematic Created: 01/15/2022Updated: 01/15/2022 11:28 am Boris Palmer (Greens), Mayor of the city of Tübingen, looks around. © Sebastian Gollnow/dpa Is vaccination against Corona coming soon, or is it not coming? Opponents doubt that the municipalities can enforce such a measure. A well-known green OB considers this to be a pretense and wipe


Palmer: Enforcement of compulsory vaccination is unproblematic

Created: 01/15/2022Updated: 01/15/2022 11:28 am

Boris Palmer (Greens), Mayor of the city of Tübingen, looks around.

© Sebastian Gollnow/dpa

Is vaccination against Corona coming soon, or is it not coming?

Opponents doubt that the municipalities can enforce such a measure.

A well-known green OB considers this to be a pretense and wipes the concerns of data protection officials off the table.

Tübingen/Stuttgart - Tübingen's Mayor Boris Palmer considers it easy to enforce compulsory vaccination against the corona virus in the municipalities.

“There is no implementation problem.

Every municipality in Germany is able to do this through its fines office and residents' register," said the Greens politician of the German Press Agency.

That can be done within a few weeks - even without a vaccination register.

If opponents of vaccination or data protectionists claimed that it was difficult to implement such an obligation, that was wrong.

"The circumstance philandering is pure pretense," Palmer said.

"If you don't want something, you're looking for problems.

Anyone who wants something is looking for a solution.”

City day and data protection officers: It's not that easy

But the city council and the top data protection officer in Baden-Württemberg contradicted Palmer's assessment.

The municipal association considers a vaccination register necessary because of the sensitive health data.

Setting up one takes time, said a spokeswoman for the dpa.

The data protection officer, Stefan Brink, told the mayor of Tübingen that he was proposing "a full control of the population as part of fine proceedings".

Brink told the dpa: "It's not as easy as Mr. Palmer imagines."

Palmer proposes procedures similar to traffic tickets

The Tübingen Mayor's proposal looks like this: If the Bundestag decides on compulsory vaccinations including a fine of around 5000 euros, the municipalities could create an excerpt from the electronically managed residents' registration files and write to all citizens over the age of 18.

He didn't arrange something similar until November, and it took a week, Palmer said.

In the letter, citizens would be asked to submit at least one written proof of their initial vaccination within four weeks.

If they do not comply, the fines office sends a hearing form with the threat of a fine of up to 5000 euros.

The additional procedures are also not a problem for the fine office.

OB brings Tübingen into the conversation as a model municipality

Palmer offered to try it out in Tübingen.

“We also do this as a model municipality.” But first, the general obligation to vaccinate must be decided in the Bundestag.

All Prime Ministers and Chancellor Olaf Scholz have spoken out in favor of an introduction.

The Bundestag is to vote on this delicate issue without the pressure of a parliamentary group.

It is expected that parliamentarians across party lines will come together and submit corresponding so-called group motions, which will then be voted on.

The spokeswoman for the city council said: "The special protection of health data is laid down in data protection law." However, that does not mean that a vaccination register is not possible.

“However, special requirements for data collection and data processing must be taken into account.

This will need time."

Data protectionists: The procedure would come close to a "raster search".

Data protection officer Brink said the positive thing about Palmer's proposal was that there was no need to set up a vaccination register.

"Also, the data from the population register would not have to be transferred to the federal government and brought together there." However, the procedure via the population register and the fine office is not legally covered.

"Without concrete suspicion that a citizen has violated the vaccination obligation, an official procedure is carried out in which he has to refute the allegation of violation of the law.

This contradicts the presumption of innocence and comes close to a dragnet search, which is only permissible in exceptional cases to solve the most serious crimes.”

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Brink explained: “If such a full check is to be carried out, it needs its own, clear and specific legal basis, also because the registration data would then be processed for a new, previously non-standard purpose – namely to identify violations of the vaccination obligation .

If such a legal basis is created, data protection principles must be observed.”

Stuttgart prefers to wait

The city of Stuttgart prefers to wait and see.

“We deal with implementation when there is a resolution and the details are known.

Until then, we are focusing our energy and ideas on how we can continue to reach out to people who have not yet gotten their vaccinations and are yet to be persuaded,” a spokesman said.

dpa

Source: merkur

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