Vaccine pass: the Senate approves the text, the device applied from next week?

The change from a health pass to a vaccination pass is imminent.

This Sunday afternoon, the bill arrives one last time before the National Assembly, which will have to vote on the final text framing this device, a new shift in the strategy to fight the Covid-19 epidemic, at a time when the contaminations are at their highest (294,032 daily cases on average over the past week).

This Saturday evening, the senators approved the text by 187 votes for, 66 against and 88 abstentions.

If the law is enacted by the deputies this Sunday, the vaccination pass could be applied concretely from the middle of the week, after examination of the text by the Constitutional Council.

Objective: to push for vaccination, which drastically reduces the risk of contracting a serious form, by restricting the lives of the unvaccinated by limiting their access to a host of places and activities, since negative tests will no longer be sufficient.

A delicate subject which still pushed 54,000 demonstrators (according to the Ministry of the Interior) into the streets this Saturday.

Against the identity verification of the vaccination pass

During the examination in the Senate, two major provisions of the initial text were deleted. Two points on which deputies and senators have been quarreling since the start of the parliamentary shuttle on December 29. On the one hand, that linked to identity verification by restaurateurs or cafetiers of a citizen presenting his vaccination pass, which aims to prevent a non-vaccinated person from using another person's vaccination pass; and on the other hand, the administrative fine for non-compliance by the employer with the rules of teleworking.

These two modifications of the initial text, recorded at second reading by the Assembly on the night of Friday to Saturday, could again “fall” during the final vote of the deputies, who have the last word. In particular because “the notion of fighting against fraud in the pass is considered essential to stem the epidemic”, blows the entourage of Olivier Véran, Minister of Health.

Finally, several gray areas will be clarified by the decree promulgating the law.

In particular the precise list of places whose entry will be subject to the vaccination pass, even if we know that bars, restaurants, cultural places, fairs or exhibitions are concerned.

Ditto for extracurricular and extracurricular activities: if, during the parliamentary shuttle, the vaccination pass was called into question in certain cases for 12-15 year olds, we do not yet know which activities will be exempted.