Article: Europe Doesn’t Recognise Australian Vaccination Certificates

Go onto Trip Advisor and go to French Forums and there is a heap of info but as your travelling from GER i wouldn't worry 2 much.
I can’t find the reference, but I believe the 270 days (some EU countries are longer) is from the relevant final shot from the initial vax (ie 2nd jab of AX, Pz etc). So long as you had/get a booster within the time limit, you are then considered “fully vaccinated“ and that currently has indefinite validity.
 
Thanks Michenny - will do. After I posted I saw it is being interpreted in a different way as you just pointed out, and as Anna said, it is a bit early as yet to take too much notice as everything can change - I am just a bit of an OCD planner. Excited to be heading out again!
 
I am in Italy right now, and was in France last week. During my stay in France, I did a day trip to the Netherlands by train to meet my friends. Strictly speaking, on my train ride back to France, the Vax cert should have been checked, but actually no one cared.
 
On a trip to France a few weeks ago the only time we had to produce a Vax Certificate was on departure (and arrival ) from Australia.
 
Portugal now recognises AIVC.

Someone in BF must have reading the SMH / The Age Traveller today.


I was surprised by the Portugal entry (now OBE) but also Qatar. I was literally reading the story while watching SYD+1s QR flight SIN-DOH on final approach and starting to wonder if transits were ok 🙀.
 
I was surprised by the Portugal entry (now OBE) but also Qatar. I was literally reading the story while watching SYD+1s QR flight SIN-DOH on final approach and starting to wonder if transits were ok 🙀.
I had my certificates all neatly printed for our UK trip and not one person asked to see them on any part of our trip, and on QR.
 
Been in Hannover, Germany for the last week, flew here with SQ and LH from Brisbane. Other than checkin at BNE I’ve not been asked to show any proof of vax until I was doing my digital declaration to return home today. Just an observation but compliance with mask wearing on planes and trains seems very high.
 
Been in Hannover, Germany for the last week, flew here with SQ and LH from Brisbane. Other than checkin at BNE I’ve not been asked to show any proof of vax until I was doing my digital declaration to return home today. Just an observation but compliance with mask wearing on planes and trains seems very high.
It surprised me how few wore masks on QR flight except during the embark/disembark process.
 
I had my certificates all neatly printed for our UK trip and not one person asked to see them on any part of our trip, and on QR.
No one in the UK has asked to see our certificates so far either. The only time we’ve had to show anything so far was at Eurostar check-in at St Pancras (completing passport control to enter France). AU certificates were sufficient. Bloke gave them a cursory glance and scanned the QR codes to verify them.

Haven’t worn a mask since we disembarked SQ flights in MAN 3 weeks ago. What pandemic?
 
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No one in the UK has asked to see our certificates so far either. The only time we’ve had to show anything so far was at Eurostar check-in at St Pancras (completing passport control to enter France). AU certificates were sufficient. Bloke gave them a cursory glance and scanned the QR codes to verify them.

Haven’t worn a mask since we disembarked SQ flights in MAN 3 weeks ago. What pandemic?
We thought the same but we still wore masks on the sub and in crowded places like tourist attractions. And on all planes. Three weeks into our trip, (two weeks ago) a positive! Unwell and knew the instant it hit. In Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. And the day we arrived back, a week ago I tested positive. I have had no symptoms, MrP felt unwell, feverish, extreme fatigue. We are both vaxxed four times. So it might be ignored by all but it still exists.
 
Clearly still compulsory on ALL public transport incl flts to / fro / within Germany
SYD+1 just flew into BER and masks off everywhere, including airport staff, immigration officers (who was indifferent to sighting ICVC) and train into town. What a difference six weeks make.
 
We thought the same but we still wore masks on the sub and in crowded places like tourist attractions. And on all planes. Three weeks into our trip, (two weeks ago) a positive! Unwell and knew the instant it hit. In Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. And the day we arrived back, a week ago I tested positive. I have had no symptoms, MrP felt unwell, feverish, extreme fatigue. We are both vaxxed four times. So it might be ignored by all but it still exists.
We don't want to ignore it as it's still relevant.

Thailand from 1st July is removing all restrictions except for vaccination history. Just 4 months ago you needed PCR test 72 hours before travel then 2 PCR tests within 7 days of arriving including travel insurance cover for Covid.

The risk hasn't disappeared. Money is the only motivation behind the push to remove all restrictions.
 
Money is the only motivation behind the push to remove all restrictions.
Not true at all. That claim is continually thrown about by people who want to be shut down until, well, there's no date. There has been two years minimum of significant restrictions. There are hidden costs everywhere, to physical and mental health, that haven't been revealed as yet. Kids education and social interactions have been significantly impacted. Hopefully can be caught up. Farmers aren't planting full crops because there are no seasonal travellers from overseas to pick them. That means - food, and right at a time when Ukraine as a significant supplier to food in Europe can't produce it.
 
Portugal now recognises AIVC.

Well $#@ me! I booked a trip months ago (for the future) just moments before they reversed their acceptance of non-essential Australian travellers, so to speak. A month later they allowed Aus tourists back, but only with testing (ok, fine), just a week ago the situation was unchanged, and then yay 22 June and they've seen the light. Portuguese bureaucracy is... bonza, especially when the primary means of communication about the rules is a tourism page (trust me, it was even extremely difficult to find Portuguese source info).
 
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Hoping someone can confirm the travel requirements to Spain for me.

Currently in Switzerland and about to fly to Spain in a couple of days. According to the Spanish Travel Health website, as the flight comes from a Schengen associated country, I do not need to complete the health form using the Aussie certificate and obtain that QR code. I tried completing it, but it exited once I selected Switzerland as the flight origin.

Is that right? I do not need to do anything? Sounds so simple. Why don't people just go via a EU country that has no vaccination requirements and then fly into Spain?
 
According to this map all europe is open to aussies without testing or quarantine so no need for vax certificate.

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However as cases are soaring in Europe things may change again. hopefully not as we will be in Spain in 2 weeks.
 
Is that right? I do not need to do anything? Sounds so simple. Why don't people just go via a EU country that has no vaccination requirements and then fly into Spain?
For many obvious reasons: available time, available routings, personal priorities. And until recently (and perhaps still in some places), the fact that you can move freely within Schengen now doesn't mean you have guaranteed full access to all facilities unless you achieve the use of a local covid-pass app. Most reports seem to indicate that most venues even in difficult countries are not troubled by an Australian-issued international Covid certificate, but the official rules aren't always accepting it, so you could occasionally still have problems.
 

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