The European Union authorities are planning to implement the Digital Green Certificate as of June 2021. Among other things, this certificate should facilitate and unify the rules for the freedom of movement of people in the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In keeping with this idea, obtaining this certificate will be voluntary and free of charge. EU citizens and their family members are supposed to be entitled to obtain this certificate. It will contain information on whether a traveler has been inoculated against COVID-19, or whether he or she has obtained a negative test result to the presence of COVID-19 and information on having recovered from a COVID-19 infection.

This certificate will be issued electronically and in hard copy. In practice, holding this certificate is supposed to enable the people who hold it to be exempt from the duty of being quarantined, for example, or taking a test for the presence of COVID-19 after traversing the frontier of an EU member state. It has not been ruled out that holding a certificate could also authorize people to travel by plane.
 

Find more in the PRO HR April 2021.