The Constitutional Council gave the green light on Saturday to the provisions concerning overseas territories in the new health law in the face of Covid.
The Constitutional Council gave the green light on Saturday to the provisions concerning overseas territories in the new health law against Covid, after a referral from LFI deputies. Definitively adopted by Parliament on Tuesday, this new text of law allows a possible health control at the borders – a negative Covid screening test – in the event of the appearance of a new particularly dangerous variant.
An identical device may apply for trips from France to overseas communities, for example, “in the event of a risk of saturation” of their health system. The LFI deputies had announced an appeal concerning the overseas territories, considering that they were the subject of an “unjustified” difference in treatment. However, the Constitutional Council ruled that the impugned provisions were constitutional.
“The principle of equality does not preclude the legislator from regulating different situations differently, nor from derogating from equality for reasons of general interest, provided that, in one and in the other case, the resulting difference in treatment is directly related to the object of the law which establishes it”, he underlines. This law also explicitly puts an end on August 1 to the health pass and other exceptional measures against Covid-19.