Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Digital Green Certificate and Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion

Mr. Ivan Bassato:

We are not aware of the details. We know technical work is going on. We are aware of the EU digital green certificate framework because we are part of the technical team at European level, the Airport Council International, our association in Brussels. We are very active with our IT experts in the work being done at that level and the information that the industry has available. It is also available to us, but we are clearly not on the technical team which is doing that for the government and the EU. We are not aware of and have not seen any template or app. We gained a certain experience of the app and the DGC, in our opinion, it is not very different from other concepts that were available in the USA during the second part of 2020 because we were deeply engaged with this app since last year, and, as I said in my opening statement, we tested, for example, on the flight between Rome and New York an app named AOKpass. It was pretty successful. We saw that in nearly 100% of the cases, the passengers did not have any problem in using an app instead of a physical piece of paper.

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