The foundations for a European Vaccination Card, or EVC for short, were laid during the coronavirus era.
This was achieved with the establishment of the Global Digital Health Certification Network,
which has been managed by the WHO since 2023.
The "Global Digital Health Certification Network", or GDHCN for short, aims to use its infrastructure to
ensure that health documents can be verified and transferred between institutions across borders.
The GDHCN is now taking the first steps to introduce a vaccination card throughout the EU.
A pilot project is currently underway in Europe, which was initiated by a European organization called
"European Vaccination Beyond COVID-19", or EUVABECO for short.
This organization was founded after the pandemic to develop various vaccine passport projects.
The EU and the WHO are working very closely together here, with the WHO having adopted the EU's digital COVID certificate.
An article published by lawyer C. Margot on 26 August 2024 suggests that this undertaking could have dark sides for
citizens across Europe. Margot published on August 26, 2024.
She sees potential dangers in this project, as it is very comprehensive and the
European vaccination card is only one part of it.
EUVABECO is supposedly "only" about information on recommended or mandatory vaccinations.
An electronic file that citizens can create themselves and fill with as much personal data as possible.
Including information on his living conditions and family situation.
The entire EUVABECO project comprises five sub-areas, which will be evaluated after a test
phase and made available to all EU countries.
The two really dangerous tools are the vaccination certificate and the "vaccination motivation screening".
The digital European vaccination certificate EVC was introduced in Germany on a trial basis from September 2024.
According to EUVABECO, it is a "personal proof", but not an "official document".
What does the lawyer Cornelia Margot have to say about this?
"That's right, but it doesn't rule out the possibility that the EVC, which was officially developed for a different
purpose, will not be used for other purposes at some point.
Since a look at a conventional vaccination certificate also fulfills this purpose, it will probably
be a matter of completely different control options.
It's easy to scan an EU-wide QR code and get the information you need at a glance.
So why should the EVC not be elevated to the status of an officially recognized verification document once it is in place?
You have to reckon with it. And the easier and quicker it is, the greater the desire
for further control mechanisms in the future."
What will the EVC look like?
In addition to a digital smartphone application, it will also be available in paper form with a QR code.
What information will the vaccination certificate contain?
"It will contain comprehensive vaccination history information, including detailed text records, a
scannable QR code and downloadable embedded metadata.
This will be the personal data of the data subject including social security number.
Then all the information about when, by whom, with what and against what was vaccinated."
According to Margot, there is a risk that Germany will introduce the European vaccination card permanently after the pilot
phase is completed and then possibly not on a voluntary basis.
This is because Austria already has an e-vaccination certificate that cannot be refused.
You can "unsubscribe" from the electronic patient file, but not from the e-vaccination record.
And ultimately it will be able to arouse further desires, for example linking with ID documents, linking
with the bank account and with the ecological footprint.
According to Ms. Margot, today this still seems like a shrill dream of the future that nobody is officially
talking about. Tomorrow - possibly a bitter reality!
The second very dangerous tool of the EUVABECO project is the vaccination motivation screening.
The aim here is to link data in order to optimize vaccination campaigns.
It is based on a model that was developed in Belgium during the coronavirus pandemic, the LINK-VACC data linkage study, developed
and applied by the Belgian public health authority Sciensano.
This basically had two purposes during the coronavirus pandemic:
To determine the personal motivation to vaccinate and to create a "post-marketing observation study" from the data.
Existing data records were accessed - from insurance documents, doctors and "other health sources".
In Belgium, this was easily possible because the electronic ID card with access to the electronic patient file is
linked to the e-prescription and the health insurance company.
In addition, everyone who had been tested for coronavirus was recorded with comprehensive personal details.
These and other data from "public and private institutions" were linked together.
The risk groups were filtered out from the data records obtained in this way.
The residents of Belgium received a personal invitation letter for coronavirus vaccination in descending order of risk.
This invitation already contained fixed dates for the first and second vaccinations.
The contact details, including telephone numbers and e-mail addresses, were simply taken from the health insurance documents.
The example of Belgium makes it impressively clear how such a tool can be misused to record citizens' motivation to vaccinate.
The planners at EUVABECO are so enthusiastic about this powerful tool that they are now considering testing it in four selected
countries and then using it throughout the EU if possible.
The example of Belgium shows what the euphemistic stories about "voluntary control over
one's own vaccination data" can actually mean!
And as tempting as the next two tools, the EUVABECO vaccination certificate and motivational screening, are, they give the
state a wide range of options for controlling the population!
What can you do?
1. show resistance and don't let yourself be lulled into complacency.
No voluntary participation in the vaccination card pilot project.
2. write letters to the editor on relevant articles and warn against the European vaccination card.
3. fill out questionnaires on your personal and health situation very carefully and very sparingly.
4. educate political decision-makers!
We must work specifically to ensure that the EVC is at least not made mandatory and that the project item "Screening
for vaccination motivation" is not introduced in our country.
The aim is therefore to prevent a law on the mandatory introduction of the EVC from being passed.
And this includes making it very clear as early as the pilot phase that this is not desirable.
Whenever you are offered to try out the apparent advantages of the new vaccination card: NO.