The European Commission has set aside €46 million (about £40 million) for four pan-European pilot projects of the European Digital Identity (“EUDI”) wallet. The projects represent a combined investment of over €90 million in the EU digital identity plans, 50% co-financed by the Commission.
The EUDI is a smartphone app on which citizens of all 27 member states of the EU can store and share a digital ID.
The four EUDI projects will involve 250 public and private organisations in almost all member states, as well as Iceland, Norway, and Ukraine, and will run for a minimum of two years. The Four Projects are:
- Pilots for European Digital Identity Wallet Consortium (“POTENTIAL”) – co-ordinated by Germany and France with the involvement of 17 Member States and Ukraine.
- EU Digital Identity Wallet Consortium (“EWC”) – co-ordinated by Sweden with the involvement of 18 Member States and Ukraine.
- Nordic-Baltic eID Wallet Consortium (“NOBID”) – co-ordinated by Norway with the involvement of 8 Member States and EEA countries.
- Digital Credentials for Europe Consortium (“DC4EU”) – co-ordinated by Spain with the involvement of 23 Member States and Ukraine.
In its announcement last Tuesday, the Commission stated the projects will help reach the Digital Decade Policy Programme target for everybody living in the EU to have access to an electronic identity (“eID”) by 2030. The target is that Member States will provide every EU citizen with access to a EUDI wallet on a mobile phone or another digital device.
The pilot projects will also help EU member states prepare for the coming into force of the European Digital Identity Regulation. The EU parliament has already approved the negotiating position of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (“ITRE”) which has been tasked with the proposed law. ITRE began negotiations with other institutions in March 2023.
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