Restaurant owners and shopping center managers resign themselves to the health pass

The French have gotten used to wearing a mask. From Monday, August 9, they will have to get used to presenting a health pass to sit at a restaurant and, probably, access the largest shopping centers in France. The Constitutional Council validated Thursday August 5 the bill adopted on July 25 by Parliament, which, like in cultural places, requires the presentation of a health pass, a negative PCR test of less than forty-eight hours or a certificate of recovery following a Covid-19 contamination to access several types of establishments open to the public.

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The text provides that, depending on the health situation observed in the department, the prefects may decide to subject shopping centers and department stores to this obligation. “By the way, decodes an anonymous source, the Constitutional Council validates the amendment tabled at the last minute by Matignon “ Sunday July 25 to obtain the establishment of the health pass in these busy places, despite the decision of the Council of State. By an opinion issued on July 19 on the bill, the latter had rejected it by pointing “ disproportionate interference with the freedoms of unvaccinated people.

By decree

The government obtains precisely this sesame through the creation of conditions “Guaranteeing people’s access to essential goods and services as well as, where appropriate, to means of transport”, specifies the law. Clearly, in the departments concerned by this obligation, unvaccinated people must always be able to access a food store in order to do their shopping.

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The government will proceed by decree to define the criteria for establishing this measure, which is supposed to reduce the spread of the Delta variant in the country. Shopping center professionals “Will do with”, assures Gontran Thüring, general delegate of the National Council of shopping centers (CNCC), regretting, however, that the judges of the rue de Montpensier did not censor this provision “Discriminatory” which will penalize the largest commercial equipment. According to the CNCC representative, in the departments where the fourth wave of the coronavirus is accelerating, the government could impose the possession of a pass to access equipment of more than 20,000 square meters, a threshold mentioned by Bruno Le Mayor, Minister of the Economy, shortly before the text is examined in Parliament.

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