@TomB – that news should indeed make things easier for you. And the report in the i seems to be correct. But keep an eye on things. They change fast sometimes. (There’s a long thread at snowheads on this very issue.)
If any requirements do stay in place / return you won’t be able to get – as you are finding – a recovery certificate. This is because the UK doesn’t generate barcodes for that and France requires a barcode (i.e. a letter isn’t enough). This made even the “pass sanitaire” very demanding for UK teens.
Under that “old regime” it was possible to use the UK positive test result email (which you have) PLUS a *single* vaccine dose to get a pass sanitaire. But that required a sympathetic pharmacist familiar with the problem and willing to be relaxed about proof of the positive. Not all resorts had/have one. Under the pass sanitaire, for a UK teen (starting at 12 yrs 2 months):
1 – two jabs was fine
2 – one jab + a positive could be made to work
3 – one jab, never had covid was no good
4 – no jabs was no good.
5 – recovery alone, no jab, although technically acceptable was impossible to prove so no good
“no good”, or not managing to make it work, meant regular tests (~25 euros each, a big queue, some bureaucracy, once upon a time every 72hrs but more recently tightened to every 24hrs).
Basically it looks like you should be fine. But if anything changes your way out won’t be a recovery barcode (we can’t get them). It’ll be getting as high up that list of possibilities as you can. I can’t tell if you are sitting at no 2 or no 5. If number 5, you are relying on the rule change (which I think will work). If you at 2 and can’t get up to 1 in time, the answer won’t be a recovery code. It will be getting on social media for the resort you are heading to (or on the way) and identifying a pharmacist who will help (or tests).