This modification was adopted almost unanimously during the first reading examination at the Palais Bourbon of the bill establishing the vaccination pass.
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Despite heated debates, this measure won a consensus. The deputies raised to 16 years the threshold required for the vaccination pass for school trips, extracurricular and extracurricular activities, against 12 years in the initial draft of the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass. This modification was adopted almost unanimously – 386 votes in favor, two against – during the examination of the text at first reading at the Palais Bourbon.
The compromise on this issue relating to the vaccination of minors, which had greatly contributed to tense up the debate, was made around an amendment by the socialist Cécile Untermaier, subamended during the session by the government.
The socialist amendment provides “not to apply the vaccination pass for minors aged 12 to 15 but to maintain the current health pass system for these minors”.
Thus, the vaccination pass would only be applied “the age from which a minor can be vaccinated against Covid-19 without parental consent”, i.e. 16 years. The sub-amendment presented by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran adds that “only the health pass can be applied to school outings, as well as to all extracurricular and extracurricular activities”.
Other amendments asking that the health pass is not required for minors under 18 were withdrawn or rejected, in favor of the compromise finally voted.
The consensus climate to amend the government’s initial text decided against the electric atmosphere that had prevailed when the text was debated the day before, marked by a vote during the night refusing to continue the debates.