According to the Circular of the Ministry of Health no. 35209 of 4th August 2021, Italian citizens (also residing abroad) and their cohabiting family members, regardless of whether they are registered with the National Health Service or the SASN (Health Assistance for Navigating Personnel), as well as all subjects registered with any title to the National Health Service who have been vaccinated abroad against SARS-CoV-2 or who have recovered from COVID-19 abroad, may request, if they are already in Italy, the issue of COVID-19 green certifications for vaccination or recovery, issued by the National Platform-DGC on the basis of the emission criteria established by the law, by going to the local Health Authorities of territorial competence, according to the procedures established by the Regions and Autonomous Provinces, and presenting, in addition to the ID and any tax code, the following documentation, depending on the type of green COVID certification -19 request:
a) vaccination certificate issued by the South African Health Authority showing the following contents:
– identification data of the applicant (name, surname, date of birth);
– data relating to the vaccine (s) (name and lot);
– date (s) of inoculation of the vaccine (s);
– identification data of the Authority who issued the certificate.
For the issue of the COVID-19 Green Pass, only the following vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) are currently valid:
– Comirnaty (PfizerBioNtech);
– Spikevax (Modern);
– Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca);
– COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen (Janssen-Johnson & Johnson).
b) certificate of recovery issued by the South African Health Authority which contains at least the following contents:
– identification data of the owner (name, surname, date of birth);
– information on the holder’s previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, following a positive test (date of first positive molecular swab);
– identification data of the person who issued the certificate
The documentation must be written in English and does NOT require translation or legalization.
- In the event of a request for the issue of COVID-19 green certification following completion of the vaccination cycle with a single dose after recovery, the applicant must present both the certificates referred to in letters a) and b).
- In case of administration of only the first dose of vaccine that has already taken place abroad, for a multi-dose vaccination cycle, the green COVID-19 certification relating to the first dose can be requested only if the validity terms established in relation to the maximum time for administration of the second dose of that vaccine (currently 42 days for mRNA vaccines and 84 days for Vaxzevria); in any case, the applicant must be guaranteed the administration of the dose to complete the vaccination cycle.
The documentation presented by the applicant can be validated, verifying compliance with the requirements listed above, exclusively by medical personnel.
The data entered in the TS system will flow into the national platform-DGC to automatically generate the green COVID-19 certification that the interested party can acquire, through the AUTHCODE that he will receive via email or, where the email address is not available, via SMS, from the website www.dgc.gov.it or from the IMMUNI APP, in combination with the details of your health card or, failing that, with those of the identity document presented at the time of the request, or via SPID / CIE digital identity always on the website www.dgc.gov.it or with APP IO.
Find out more about Green Pass: https://www.governo.it/it/articolo/comunicato-stampa-del-consiglio-dei-ministri-n-30/17514
