Le covid safe ticket

: Une atteinte à la vie privée

Abstract

The Covid Safe Ticket is the COVID digital certificate in Belgium, which came into force on 16 June 2021. Initially, it was intended to be a travel facility as well as a condition for access to experiments, pilot projects and mass events. However, the Covid Safe Ticket will have its material and temporal scope extended, in view of the emergency linked to the epidemiological situation. The federated entities will issue ordinances and decrees to impose the use of the Covid Safe Ticket in many places, such as cultural, festive and recreational places, which will infringe on various individual freedoms and fundamental rights, including, in this case, the right to privacy. The balance between the preservation of public health and the protection of privacy will be the subject of several controversial case law decisions on the Covid Safe Ticket, as an infringement of the right to privacy. In view of the improved epidemiological situation in Covid-19, the Concertation Committee of 4 March 2022 will suspend the Covid Safe Ticket, a decision that will take effect from 7 March 2022. Since then,2, there are still some grey areas, particularly in relation to the fate of the data collected via the CovidScan application, as there has been no further communication about this. Furthermore, if the Covid Safe Ticket were to reappear due to a possible epidemiological situation, it would be commendable to consider the conditions for a possible return of the Covid Safe Ticket that meet the requirements of respect for fundamental rights.

Date of Award	2022
Original language	French
Awarding Institution	University of Namur
Supervisor	Cecile De Terwangne (Supervisor)