The bullet is still not definitively through the church for the expansion of the corona pass. The Flemish government wants to avoid legal complaints.
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A broader application of the covid safe ticket (CST), the so-called corona pass, was already in the pipeline at the end of last week (DS September 24). For example, the pass would be mandatory for visitors to residential care centers and hospitals from 1 October. A number of municipalities in the Flemish periphery around Brussels, which are struggling with a lower vaccination rate, could also voluntarily introduce the corona pass, including in the catering industry. Antwerp was kept out of harm’s way, at the express request of the N-VA.
The Flemish government planned to make the final decision last weekend, but in the end the cabinet of Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon (N-VA) put the brakes on. ‘It’s a legal problem. It is not so easy to say: in one Flemish municipality it is not and in another it is,” Jambon said on Monday. The news on the VRT. He now wants to take more time to clear up a few ‘ambiguities’.
“We want to avoid having to quickly withdraw the rules because they are being challenged,” the cabinet said. That would be particularly painful for Jambon, especially after he, together with his own party chairman and Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever (N-VA), already lashed out at the ministerial decisions of Minister of the Interior Annelies Verlinden (CD&V). ‘A lawyer should know that the letter of the law counts,’ De Wever sneered at the time. ‘After a year and a half, people have never managed to deliver one decent MB.’
Also delays in Brussels
In the meantime, the extension of the corona pass is also being delayed in Brussels. Normally, the intention was to make the corona pass mandatory in the catering industry from 1 October. But the Brussels government is still waiting for the advice of the Data Protection Authority and the Council of State and then also has to go to parliament. Brussels also wants to coordinate with Wallonia, which wants to introduce the corona pass in a similar way. However, the rules should come into effect by October 15 at the latest.
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