EBWOID
EBWOID, European Business Wallet Owner Identification Data, is the attestation that identifies the organisation a European Business Wallet belongs to, issued from an authentic source such as a business register.
It is deliberately small. Rather than describing a company in full, it carries a cross-border unique identifier such as an EUID, the official legal name as held in the authentic register, the issuing authority and country, an expiry date, status information for revocation and suspension, and a trust anchor a verifier can follow to check all of it. It also states its own legal category, either a QEAA or a public-sector EAA, so a relying party knows what weight it carries. Issuers are public sector bodies, qualified trust service providers, or the Commission for Union entities, always working from authentic sources notified to the Commission. The format is SD-JWT VC, with the credential type uri:eu.ebw.oid.1, or the W3C data model; ISO mdoc is explicitly out of scope. EBWOID identifies the organisation and nothing more, so where a transaction has to be bound to a person acting for it, the relying party asks for that representative's PID alongside it. EBWOID is defined in the WE BUILD attestation rulebooks catalogue rather than in a stand-alone European regulation, which means its exact schema can evolve alongside the consortium's other business-wallet rulebooks without a legislative change each time. A verifier checks it the same way it checks any other attestation: by following the trust anchor back to a Trusted List entry for the issuing authority, so accepting an EBWOID does not require a separate integration with each country's business register. In practice it shows up wherever a transaction needs to establish which company is on the other end before deciding whether to proceed, cross-border invoicing, supplier onboarding, tender participation, without exposing turnover, ownership or any other detail the business register happens to hold.
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Is EBWOID the same as a PID?
No. An EBWOID attests which organisation a European Business Wallet belongs to, comparable to a company registration certificate, while a PID attests who a natural person is. A transaction that needs both facts, for example a signature made on behalf of a company, has the wallet present the EBWOID for the organisation and the signer's PID together, since neither credential substitutes for the other.