Coronavirus: towards a European health label for hotels, restaurants and tourist establishments

The Commission asked CEN, the standardization organization, to develop this label in cooperation with these sectors and the Member States.

OFurther to the vaccination certificate, the European Commission on Wednesday proposed a coordinated approach with a view to gradually lifting restrictions linked to covid, when the health situation permits.

This approach, which will be discussed at the European summit on March 25 and 26, notably provides for the creation by the summer of a health label to be used, on a voluntary basis, by tourism, accommodation and catering establishments. .

The Commission asked CEN, the standardization organization, to develop this label in cooperation with these sectors and the Member States.

To help member states ease restrictions when the situation allows, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is developing for April a digital level assessment tool reflecting the epidemiological situation in each member state, thus showing the leeway available.

ECDC will also soon be publishing technical guidance on self-tests for covid, which is starting to hit the markets.

Among other measures such as the sharing of tracing data in a framed manner, recommendations published on Wednesday should facilitate the monitoring of wastewater in order to follow the covid and its variants.

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