EAA
(Electronic Attestation of Attributes)
An EAA, Electronic Attestation of Attributes, is any electronic attestation that certifies one or more attributes about a natural or legal person, issued by any provider. It is the general category; a QEAA is the qualified, higher-assurance variant of it.
Any organisation can issue an EAA, and a relying party still has to judge how much to trust the issuer, unlike a QEAA, which carries the legal presumption of accuracy eIDAS 2.0 grants. A PuB-EAA is an EAA issued by, or on behalf of, a public sector body: it sits between the two, coming from a trusted institutional source without going through qualified trust service provider certification. In practice most attestations useful for business use cases, such as a chamber-of-commerce extract or a professional qualification, start as EAAs or PuB-EAAs before some of them are also offered in qualified form.
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What is the difference between an EAA and a QEAA?
An EAA can be issued by any provider and carries whatever trust a relying party is willing to extend based on who issued it. A QEAA can only be issued by a qualified trust service provider listed on a national Trusted List, and eIDAS 2.0 gives it a legal presumption of accuracy, so a relying party can accept it without further checks.