Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/256 of 22 February 2022 amending Regulation (EU) 2021/953 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the issuance of certificates of recovery based on rapid antigen tests (Text with EEA relevance)

• CELEX: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/256
• Articles: 3

Article 1

Regulation (EU) 2021/953 is amended as follows:

(1)

in Article 3(1), point (c) is replaced by the following:

“(c)

a certificate confirming that, following a positive result of a NAAT test, or a rapid antigen test listed in the EU common list of COVID-19 antigen tests agreed by the Health Security Committee, carried out by health professionals or by skilled testing personnel, the holder has recovered from a SARS-CoV-2 infection (certificate of recovery).”;

(2)

in Article 7, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

“1.   Each Member State shall issue, upon request, certificates of recovery referred to in point (c) of Article 3(1) following a positive result of a NAAT test carried out by health professionals or by skilled testing personnel.

A Member State may also issue, upon request, certificates of recovery referred to in point (c) of Article 3(1) following a positive result of a rapid antigen test listed in the EU common list of COVID-19 antigen tests agreed by the Health Security Committee carried out by health professionals or by skilled testing personnel.

Member States may issue certificates of recovery based on rapid antigen tests carried out by health professionals or by skilled testing personnel on or after 1 October 2021, provided that the rapid antigen test used was included in the EU common list of COVID-19 antigen tests agreed by the Health Security Committee at the time the positive test result was produced.

Certificates of recovery shall be issued at the earliest 11 days after the date on which a person was first subject to a NAAT test or rapid antigen test that produced a positive result.

The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 12 to amend the number of days after which a certificate of recovery is to be issued, on the basis of guidance received from the Health Security Committee in accordance with Article 3(11) or on scientific evidence reviewed by ECDC.”;

(3)

the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2021/953 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Point 3 of the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2021/953 is replaced by the following:

‘3.

Data fields to be included in the certificate of recovery:

(a)

name: surname(s) and forename(s), in that order;

(b)

date of birth;

(c)

disease or agent from which the holder has recovered: COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 or one of its variants);

(d)

date of first positive test result;

(e)

Member State or third country in which test was carried out;

(f)

certificate issuer;

(g)

certificate valid from;

(h)

certificate valid until (not more than 180 days after the date of first positive test result);

(i)

unique certificate identifier.’.