EU: Travel restrictions in Canada and 9 other countries are lifted

The EU Council has added 10 new countries to its list of third countries for which the EU is removing them travelers restrictions, including Canada. In particular, from 1 July, EU Member States may gradually lift restrictions on residents of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Jordan, Montenegro, Qatar, Brunei and Mulden. of Saudi Arabia. Travel restrictions for Kosovo are also being lifted, according to APE.

The Council shall review and update this list every two weeks, based on the criteria and conditions set out in the Recommendation on the phasing out of temporary restrictions on unnecessary travel to the EU. It is noted that 15 days ago the USA, Lebanon and Taiwan were added to the list, while the list of Japan, Australia, Israel, New Zealand, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and China without prejudice to the affirmation of reciprocity.

It is recalled that a key criterion for lifting travel restrictions for a third country is to record less than 75 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days. The lifting of restrictions on third countries on the EU list is not binding on EU Member States which may, if they so wish, quarantine travelers from those countries.

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