Call for European Digital Identity Wallet Pilots

In its June 2021 edition, ID & Secure Document News™ reported that the European Commission was promoting its proposal for a regulation that would amend the electronic identification, authentication and trust services (eIDAS) regulation and establish a framework for a European Digital Identity ¹. The proposal came after a consultation that collected views from stakeholders on planned revisions to the eIDAS regulation, which included extending it to the private sector (see IDN August 2020).

Almost a year later, the EU confirmed it was working on a new digital wallet, secured by biometrics, that would allow EU citizens to verify their ID, access public and private services across the bloc, and store digital documents.

And now, the European Commission has announced the impending launch of at least four large-scale pilots to test the deployment of the European Digital Identity Wallet ². The pilots will deploy the European Digital Identity Wallet (DIW) in national eID ecosystems operated by member states.