The biggest shift in European digital identity in a decade is underway. Here is what eIDAS 2.0 means for your organisation and how to get ready.
The revised eIDAS Regulation, widely known as eIDAS 2.0, reshapes how 450 million Europeans prove who they are online. Its centerpiece is the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet): a state-certified, EU-wide digital wallet that lets citizens and businesses present identity attributes, credentials and qualified signatures securely and on their own terms. For any organisation that onboards ,customers, executes document signing, or verifies identity, this is not a distant policy debate, it is a near-term operational change.
What actually changes
- A universal wallet. Every EU member state must offer at least one EUDI Wallet, giving users a single, trusted way to share verified identity data across borders and sectors.
- Qualified signatures from the wallet. The wallet must support qualified electronic signatures (QES) for natural persons, bringing legally binding, handwritten-equivalent signing to everyone, free for personal use.
- Mandatory acceptance. Relying parties in regulated sectors such as banking, telecommunications, large platforms and public services will be required to accept the wallet for identification and authentication.
- Stronger trust services. eIDAS 2.0 adds new qualified trust services, including electronic attestation of attributes and qualified remote signing.
The timeline you should plan against
The implementing acts are in place and member states are required to make wallets available by 2026, with mandatory acceptance by relying parties following from 2027. That sounds comfortable but integrating identity verification, attribute checking and qualified signing into existing customer journeys is a multi-quarter programme, not a switch you flip. Organisations that begin now will treat the wallet as an advantage; those that wait will scramble to comply.
How to prepare
- Map your identity touchpoints. Identify every onboarding, login and signing journey where the wallet could replace manual checks or weaker methods.
- Plan your relying-party integration. Understand how you will request and verify wallet-presented attributes, and where mandatory acceptance will apply to you.
- Get signing-ready. Ensure your signing workflows can accept wallet-based qualified signatures and validate them reliably.
- Partner with a qualified trust service provider. Wallet-era identity and signing depend on qualified trust services. Choose a partner who already operates them.
How primesign helps
Primesign helps you move with eIDAS 2.0 rather than react to it – by bringing together trust services such as qualified remote signing with a dedicated signing platform. We help you prepare relying-party integrations, wallet-based signatures, and make the EUDI Wallet a smoother, more trustworthy customer experience instead of a compliance scramble.
Want a head start? Talk to primesign about eIDAS 2.0 and the EUDI Wallet.