International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis

Facing an unprecedented healthcare crisis in the third wave of the novel coronavirus, featuring skyrocketing death rates now totalling 30,000, the highest in the world per capita, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government ordered massive doses of eastern vaccines and rushed to inoculate citizens.

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Requirement 1: Pre-Travel Clearance

As of today, the tourist season in Greece has officially kicked off Checkpoints Kulata - Promahon and Makaza - Nymfaia are open entry of tourists. At the Kulata border checkpoint the traffic is not busy. Cars, mostly with Serbian registration, are scarce.

Bulgaria will join on Friday the European testing of the digital green certificate system, which the EU is preparing to introduce in the summer to facilitate travel in Europe. 18 European countries and Iceland, which is a member of EEA, will conduct tests of the system for connection to the common server in the next two weeks, as the "Bulgarian day" is on May 14.

Long lines of vehicles and chaos at the Kulata border checkpoint on the day when thousands of Bulgarians returned from Greece after the Easter holidays. Those who did not have vaccination certificates or had expired the 72-hour period of their PCR test. Had to wait for hours.

Ljubljana – Slovenia and Hungary have agreed to mutually recognise their respective Covid-19 vaccination certificates, the Slovenian Ministry has announced. A vaccination certificate issued in one country will have the same legal effect as the one issued in another, in line with the internal national legal orders.

Lawmakers adopted on Thursday the EP's negotiating position on the proposal for a certificate to reaffirm the right to free movement in Europe during the coronavirus pandemic.

Renaming the proposed by the Commission 'Digital Green Certificate', MEPs agreed that the new "EU COVID-19 certificate" should be in place for 12 months and not longer.

Still, it is not so easy to enter Greece. "This morning, we arrived first at the border crossing, around 6 in the morning," it was reported by TV Prva.

Third-country nationals will also be able to have them, it was announced today from Brussels.