Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/1073 of 28 June 2021 laying down technical specifications and rules for the implementation of the trust framework for the EU Digital COVID Certificate established by Regulation (EU) 2021/953 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)

The technical specifications for the EU Digital COVID Certificate laying down the generic data structure, the encoding mechanisms, and the transport encoding mechanism in a machine-readable optical format are set out in Annex I.

The rules for populating the certificates referred to in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/953 are set out in Annex II to this Decision.

The requirements laying down the common structure of the unique certificate identifier are set out in Annex III.

The governance rules applicable to public key certificates in relation to the EU Digital COVID Certificate gateway supporting the interoperability aspects of the trust framework are set out in Annex IV.