EUDI Wallet
The EUDI Wallet is the European Digital Identity Wallet mandated by eIDAS 2.0: a wallet app every EU member state must offer citizens and businesses for storing and presenting verifiable credentials, recognised across all 27 member states.
Each member state issues or accredits its own EUDI Wallet app, but every implementation follows the same EU Architecture Reference Framework (ARF), so a credential issued in one country can be presented to a relying party in any other without a bilateral agreement between the two states. Alongside ordinary credentials such as a mobile driving licence, a diploma or a business registration extract, a EUDI Wallet holds a wallet attestation proving the wallet instance itself, its app and its hardware-backed key storage, meets the certification requirements set out in the ARF, which a relying party can check before trusting anything the wallet presents. The wallet must support both OpenID4VCI for pulling credentials in from issuers and OpenID4VP for presenting them to relying parties, plus qualified electronic signatures so a citizen can sign a document with the same legal weight as a handwritten signature. Member states are required to offer the wallet free of charge to every citizen and resident who wants one, and no relying party in a regulated sector may refuse a EUDI Wallet credential once eIDAS 2.0's transition period ends. Large online platforms designated under other EU digital rules must also accept EUDI Wallet credentials for identification where they already ask users to prove who they are, extending the wallet's reach beyond public services into everyday commercial life across the internal market.
Can a EUDI Wallet issued in one EU country be used in another?
Yes. Every national EUDI Wallet implementation follows the same EU Architecture Reference Framework and the same issuance and presentation protocols, so a credential issued by one member state's wallet is recognised by relying parties anywhere else in the Union. That cross-border recognition, not just the app itself, is the core requirement eIDAS 2.0 places on member states.