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From the point of view of the EU Commission, 70 percent of adults in the European Union should be vaccinated against the coronavirus by the summer.
The Brussels authority wants to publish the proposal on Tuesday, as the German press agency learned in advance.
By March, the interim goal is to immunize 80 percent of people over 80 years of age and health care workers.
According to dpa information, the goals are part of a discussion paper for the EU video summit on Thursday.
There, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the other heads of state and government should also discuss the question of whether there should be an EU vaccination certificate and any associated privileges, according to the will of Council Chairman Charles Michel.
There is a critical discussion about this in Germany.
According to dpa information, the EU Commission wants to plead for a vaccination document that is as precise as possible and recognized in all EU countries.
This should make it clear who received which vaccine and when in which EU country.
This should also help to trace any side effects.
Whether vaccinated people enjoy benefits - for example access to restaurants and cinemas or easier vacation travel - should be left to the EU member states.
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In view of the particularly contagious mutations of the coronavirus, the EU Commission wants to urge the member states to do more to detect the new virus forms.
This requires the so-called sequencing of the virus samples taken during tests.
Most EU countries are far from the desirable numbers for sequencing, it was said in Brussels.
Virus variants would thus be discovered more by chance - unlike in Great Britain, where searches were carried out more systematically.
On Monday evening, EU Council President Michel published his letter of invitation for the video summit on Thursday, at which the 27 states want to coordinate the fight against the pandemic.
In addition to the subjects of vaccination records and vaccination privileges, it should also be about the mutations.
The hot topic is vaccination: "Accelerating vaccinations in the EU is our absolute priority," wrote Michel.
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