Entry Into Force Of EU Digital Identity Regulation (EUID)

The European Digital Identity (EUID) Regulation will revolutionize digital identity in the EU by enabling the creation of a universal, trusted, and secure European Digital Identity Wallet. The regulation entered into force on May 20, 2024.

I. From digital identification to digital Wallet

The new Regulation establishing a framework for a European Digital Identity builds on the 2014 Regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market (eIDAS Regulation).

Under the eIDAS regulation, EU Member States could, on a voluntary basis, notify national electronic identification schemes, which other Member States where then obliged to recognise. The recognition of notified electronic identification became mandatory in 2018. Yet, there was no requirement for Member States to develop a national electronic identification. Interoperability was achieved only by implementing an interoperability superstructure