If you plan to travel soon and you surf the “Travel advice by country” section from the SPF Foreign Affairs platform, you will quickly notice that “from January 27 to 1er April 2021, you can only travel abroad for an essential reason.“
However, you were convinced that travel for non-essential reasons was prohibited until 1er March. This is still the case today. The government has – at the time of writing – not yet decided “formally” to extend the travel ban until 1er April. During the last Consultation Committee (Friday February 5, 2021), it was just decided to extend the decree of October 28, 2020 until 1er April 2021 “in order to guarantee the necessary legal certainty even after the 1er March.“
It was decided to extend the decree of October 28, 2020 until April 1, 2021 “in order to guarantee the necessary legal certainty even after March 1.”
“This extension does not however exclude decisions or modifications in the meantime.“, according to the press release of the government, which also specifies that” the next consultation committee is scheduled for Friday February 26, 2021. “
Finally, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said at the microphone of VTM, following the last Consultative Committee: “The measures we are taking are very strict and put a lot of pressure on everyone. We must not keep them longer than necessary. “