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On 18 January 2022, the Minister for Family and Integration, Corinne Cahen, and HRH Prince Guillaume visited various departments of Inter-Actions.

Today, the Minister for the Environment Carole Dieschbourg completed the work on the amendments to the law on nature protection in the Chamber of Deputies. The aim of these amendments is to strengthen the existing legal framework, to optimise legal certainty for citizens and to simplify the existing procedures.

The signing of the "Pakt vum Zesummeliewen" with the municipality of Hesperange, the Ministry of Family Affairs, Integration and the Greater Region and with the Syvicol, marked the start for the signatory municipalities in 2022.

The Ministries of Culture and Justice, in collaboration with the Prison Administration, are pleased to launch the call for projects Access to Culture – Culture in prison.

It should be noted that the employee must present a valid 3G certificate only upon arrival at the workplace.

As of 15 January 2022, legal provisions introducing the obligation to present a Covid-19 vaccination, recovery or negative test certificate at the workplace have come into force.

The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 has increased significantly from 5,643 to 10,680 cases (+89%) for the week of 3 to 9 January.

Following the adoption by the Chamber of Deputies of the new rules for the 2G+ system, people with a complete vaccination pattern of less than 180 days, those who have received a booster vaccination and those who have a recovery certificate are now exempt from the testing requirement under the CovidCheck 2G+ system.

Following today's vote on bill no. 7943, the amended law of 17 July 2020 on measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic has been adapted on the following points.

On 11 January 2022, Yuriko Backes, newly appointed Minister of Finance, met with Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to discuss the current state-of-play of the international tax reform and next steps in its implementation.

The Ministry of Culture is calling for applications for the 8th Council of Europe Landscape Award.

The national innovation agency Luxinnovation has published its strategy for the period 2022-2025. This document served as a basis for the elaboration of the performance contract governing Luxinnovation's activities for the next four years, validated by the Government Council on 15 December.

Marc Hansen, Minister delegate for Digitalisation participated virtually in the "Committed to Connecting – Government Strategies to Increase Access" flagship round-table as part of the "Closing the digital divide" day on January 9, which was organised in the context of the "Travel and Connectivity week" at the Expo Dubai 2020.

Because of the current epidemic wave and the threat of the omicron variant, the Government Council decided on 7 January 2022 to reduce the interval for the booster shot to 3 months after a two-dose vaccination (Moderna, BioNTech/Pfizer) and a "Mix & Match" vaccination (AstraZeneca in the 1st dose and ARN in the 2nd dose) and to open up the booster shot to teenagers aged 12 and over.

The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 has increased from 2,688 to 5,641 cases (+110%) for the week of 27 December to 2 January.