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I'm a UK citizen and resident looking to travel to a handful of EU countries including France in the next few months.

The EU-wide Digital Covid Certificate should be valid as proof of vaccination in all EU countries, but people vaccinated in the UK aren't eligible.

France has announced they do accept UK vaccination certificates, and I was able to import mine into the French TousAntiCovid app and get a Pass Sanitaire. What's not clear to me: does this count as a full EU Digital Covid Certificate? If not, is it possible to generate one from TousAntiCovid, or obtain one any other way based on a UK vaccination?

This French government page indicates that the UK certificate is valid in France, but is unclear about other EU countries:

If you have been vaccinated in one of the following countries – European Union Member States, Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom (England and Wales only) – your country issues an EU Digital COVID Certificate which is accepted in France, or, in the case of the United Kingdom, a digital format also accepted in France. In that case, you do not need to convert your COVID certificate.

Joe Malt
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  • Does this answer your question? https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/166758/are-there-countries-that-allow-tourists-to-obtain-the-eu-vaccination-certificate – Anders Sep 15 '21 at 18:43
  • @Anders that partially answers it, thanks for the link. That question covers non-EU residents in general, but the UK seems to be a weird edge case: UK certificates are valid in France (so the French government won't issue an EU certificate), but not across the EU. – Joe Malt Sep 15 '21 at 18:53
  • Can you compare your app with the screenshots? the EU certificate should say UE. If you got a cert from before June 25 it might be possible to convert, but if you got a French one after June 25 they've made an exception for UK https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/How-to-update-Covid-vaccine-certificate-to-EU-format-via-TousAntiCovid – Anders Sep 15 '21 at 19:46
  • A simple way to determine this is to install one of the national checking programs (VerificaC19 (Italy), CovPassCheck (Germany), Covid Certificate Check (Switzerland)) and read the UK QR-Code. At present, 15 non EU countries are supported (among them: Albania, Andorra, the Faroe Islands, Israel, Monaco, Marocco, Turkey and Panama). – Mark Johnson Sep 16 '21 at 07:17
  • I’m voting to close this question because the pandemic is now over. – JonathanReez Jan 28 '23 at 18:48

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