The bill transforming the health pass into a vaccine pass will be examined in committee at the National Assembly on Wednesday, and the Minister of Health Olivier Véran heard the same day, according to the Official Journal published on Thursday. The text must be presented to the extraordinary Council of Ministers on Monday, the government announced on Tuesday.
The Law Commission will examine on December 29 the “bill strengthening the tools for managing the health crisis (subject to its filing)” and will hear Olivier Véran, the Official Journal indicates on Thursday. Faced with the fifth wave of the Covid-19 epidemic and the arrival of the Omicron variant in the territory, the government announced on December 17 the transformation of the health pass into a vaccine pass by the end of January.
Coming into force in mid-January?
But on Tuesday, he chose to speed up the schedule with this exceptional Council of Ministers, then the examination of the bill in the same week and an entry into force now referred to “from the first half of January”. If he assured that the text would not include the track of a health pass in business in view of the reluctance of the social partners. Majority deputies could introduce the device into the text by tabling an amendment.
A text that is not unanimous
The president of the PS group in the National Assembly Valérie Rabault warned Thursday that if the group would vote “in principle” for the vaccination pass, he would oppose a corporate pass. The environmental deputies are also circumspect, and on the National Rally side, the deputy for the North and spokesperson for the party Sébastien Chenu has indicated that he will vote against the text regardless of its content.