On 20 May 2021, the European Commission, Council and Parliament announced a breakthrough in the trialogue negotiations to establish the European Union (EU) Digital COVID Certificate. Originally, this standardisation effort was labelled as “Digital Green Certificate” and – “[i]n view of the urgency” – presented without a data protection impact assessment. It should allow citizens and residents of Member States to prove that they are either vaccinated against COVID-19, have recently tested negative or are currently immune against the virus. This article considers the proposal from a privacy perspective, taking into account the opinion of EU data protection authorities, ongoing negotiations in the EU institutions and relevant developments on the national and international level. While the European Parliament and others tried to improve the original Commission proposal, questions around the appropriateness and effectiveness of the framework remain. The technological and organisational implementation is essentially left to Member States, who already have started to develop their own tracing and identification systems.

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欧盟数字 COVID 证书：初步数据保护影响评估

2021 年 5 月 20 日，欧盟委员会、理事会和议会宣布在建立欧盟 (EU) 数字 COVID 证书的试验谈判中取得突破。最初，这项标准化工作被标记为“数字绿色证书”，并且——“鉴于紧迫性”——在没有数据保护影响评估的情况下提出。它应该允许会员国的公民和居民证明他们要么接种了 COVID-19 疫苗，最近检测呈阴性，要么目前对该病毒免疫。本文从隐私的角度考虑该提案，考虑到欧盟数据保护机构的意见、欧盟机构正在进行的谈判以及国家和国际层面的相关发展。尽管欧洲议会和其他人试图改进最初的委员会提案，但围绕该框架的适当性和有效性的问题仍然存在。技术和组织实施基本上留给已经开始开发自己的追踪和识别系统的会员国。