A last round to debate, and to respect the parliamentary shuttles.
After two particularly eventful weeks, the National Assembly definitively adopted this Sunday at the end of the afternoon the bill strengthening the tools for managing the health crisis, the one which transforms the health pass into a vaccination pass.
The text was adopted by 215 votes to 58.
After the vote of the Senate at second reading, the Assembly had - it is the law - the last word, and the deputies, reopening the discussion at 4 p.m. this Sunday afternoon, had first examined the modifications made by the upper house, with a majority on the right, Saturday afternoon.
Only for over 16s
The vaccination pass should be able to be applied in a few days, after examination of the text by the Constitutional Council.
Its entry into force will have taken a little delay: the government would have liked it to be applicable on January 15, when some 300,000 contaminations have been recorded daily on average for a week, linked to the expansion of the Omicron variant.
Once the pass is effective, it will then be necessary to be able to justify a vaccination status to access leisure activities, restaurants and bars, fairs or interregional public transport.
A negative test will no longer suffice, except to access health facilities and services.
Main contribution of the parliamentary debate, thanks to the Senate: the new pass will only apply to people from the age of 16, the age of “vaccination freedom” against Covid-19, that is to say where it does not there is no need for parental consent.
Minors aged 12 to 15 will remain subject to the obligation to present the current health pass.
