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From 1 January British holidaymakers will be barred from the European Union
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From 1 January British holidaymakers will be barred from the European Union under current Covid-19 safety restrictions.
However there are changes for those travelling to Spain, from today 10th December, published in the Official State Gazette - BOE.
*Travellers by air or sea from risk countries must provide a negative diagnosis of #COVID19 with *EITHER* a PCR, or a Transcription-Mediated Amplification test (TMA), or equivalent, carried out 72 hours before arrival.
(Before, only a PCR test was accepted)
*Children under 6 years old will NOT be required to provide a negative test.
(Before, even children under 6 had to show proof of negative test)
*You may present the proof of test in either Spanish, English, French or German.
(Before, only English or Spanish was accepted).
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It is puzzling that the Covid test requirement for travellers is being relaxed a little, because simultaneously it’s being made almost impossible after 1 January for U.K. travellers to enter Spain if the reason is non-essential. I realise that will not affect travellers from EU countries:
“From 1 January British holidaymakers will be barred from the European Union from 1 January under current Covid-19 safety restrictions, there will be no exemption for the UK. The rules prohibit non-essential visitors from outside the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) – with the UK included only until the end of the Brexit transition period. Under European rules, individuals can still enter the bloc in certain cases, mainly for work – including aid workers, care workers, diplomats, healthcare professionals, military personnel, seasonal farm workers and transport workers. Entry for study, transit, and ‘urgent’ family reasons is also permitted.”
The Transition period ends in just 3 weeks. From then the U.K. is a third country similar to Albania and Ukraine. The EU member states will only allow non-essential travel from a small group of (non-EU) countries with lower levels of Covid cases. It’s unlikely Spain will ignore that decision. UK travellers lacking residence in Spain will be unlikely to be allowed in - by air, sea or land - so a Covid test seems unnecessary.
Chris
