Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Ivan Bassato:

We are familiar with the system as members of Airports Council International Europe so we continue to listen to this discussion. The system itself has not been implemented yet in the country but we started with a similar regime. As I stated, the country experienced, in the first part of the summer of 2020, the importation of cases from abroad, in the first instance from countries far from the external border of the EU. In August, there was a surge of cases among passengers - many were Italian - coming back from holidays in Spain, Greece, Croatia and Malta. Some countries within the EU were identified as countries bearing a higher risk. They were not coded at the time as red or amber. I do not dispute that in the evolution of the legislation in Italy, the system based on the recommendations of the EU can be adopted by our Government. We have set out six groups of countries, three of which involve EU member states and three of which do not.

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