At the end of March 2021, Austria's Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) announced that the Green Pass would be used with a neat app in Germany in April 2021. The appointment could not be kept and only since the weekend can vaccinated people download their certificates - in A4 format as PDF, which is not very suitable for everyday use.

The latest announcement by Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) that all people who are fully vaccinated up to and including June 30, 2021 should receive their EU certificate by post, seems almost antiquated. The Green Passport was supposed to put an end to the paperwork, but at the moment the federal government is simply creating additional paper.

It has become very quiet around the smartphone app, which was widely announced by Sebastian Kurz. Hardly a word is lost about this and on request the official bodies point out that you can download the “green passport” (i.e. the EU certificates for those who have been vaccinated, recovered and tested) as a PDF using the mobile phone signature. A spokeswoman even said that you could show it on your cell phone. In addition, all vaccinated people should now receive their “Green Passport” on paper by post.

This is how you put the Green Pass in your wallet and on your smartphone

The current implementation by the Austrian government is not really suitable for everyday use, so it remains to be hoped that a digital solution in the form of a smartphone app will be added. By the way, a young programmer set up a solution within a few hours that makes the government's PDFs ready for implementation in smartphone wallets. The tool is free of charge and can be used without registration, more details in this article.

How to get to the “Green Pass” at all, Aviation Direct has described in detail under this link. Since the A4 format is very bulky in everyday life, Tips published in this article how to print the certificates with a few, but legal tricks, for example to fit the wallet.