eIDAS-Countdown is on

EU Member States shall provide certified EUDI-Wallets until 24 December 2026

The amended regulation (EU) No 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market, which is commonly known as “eIDAS-Regulation”, in particular requires that all EU Member States shall provide certified and Open Source licensed “European Digital Identity Wallets” (EUDIW) according to its Article 5a to their citizens by Christmas 2026.

EU Member States shall also offer Authentic Source Interfaces until 24 December 2026

Furthermore, Article 45e of the same regulation requires that the EU Member States also provide so called ”Authentic Source Interfaces” (AuthSrc-API) until the very same day. These interfaces, which are currently standardized in ETSI TS 119 478, will allow Qualified Trust Service Providers, which issue electronic attestations of attributes, to verify at least the attributes listed in Annex VI of the eIDAS-Regulation by electronic means at the request of the user.

The eIDAS-Countdown is on and there are only 500 days left until 24 December 2026

There are only 500 days left until Christmas 2026. The eIDAS-Countdown, which might be worth to be bookmarked, is available at

https://days2.go.eID.AS.

Minimum set of attributes according to Annex VI serves natural and legal persons

This minimum set of attributes according to Annex VI, which is envisioned to be verifiable via the Authentic Source interface is as follows:

(1) Address;

(2) Age;

(3) Gender;

(4) Civil status;

(5) Family composition;

(6) Nationality or citizenship;

(7) Educational qualifications, titles and licences;

(8) Professional qualifications, titles and licences;

(9) Powers and mandates to represent natural or legal persons;

(10) Public permits and licences;

(11) For legal persons, financial and company data;

“As introducing electronic interfaces for authentic sources in the public sector might not be a trivial task within some EU Member States and the time until 24 December 2026 is expected to move fast, we kindly encourage all EU Member States to start working on the Authentic Source interface soon,” adds Dr. Detlef Hühnlein, Director at go.eIDAS e.V. and Rapporteur for ETSI TS 119 478. “We welcome early adopters who want to pilot the interfaces specified by ETSI and the experts within the non-profit go.eIDAS-Association are prepared to provide further advice and support if necessary.”

go.eIDAS-Association – join us today to shape the future of sovereignty and trust!

The go.eIDAS-Association welcomes all interested organizations and individuals who are committed to the goals of the open initiative and want to contribute to the development of a sovereign, trustworthy and interoperable European Digital Identity Framework and European Dataspace Ecosystem. This especially includes application providers, eID-related stakeholders, trust service providers, wallet providers, conformity assessment bodies, other service providers, regulatory authorities and other public sector bodies, publicly funded projects and initiatives, academic institutions and standard development organizations as well as individual persons.