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QEAA

A QEAA, Qualified Electronic Attestation of Attributes, is a verifiable credential issued by a qualified trust service provider under eIDAS 2.0, carrying the same legal weight as a notarised or certified paper document.

Any organisation can issue an attestation of attributes, but only one issued by a provider listed as qualified on a national Trusted List is a QEAA, and only a QEAA benefits from the legal presumption of accuracy eIDAS 2.0 grants it: a relying party can accept it as proof without further checks, the same way it would accept a notarised extract today. A lower-assurance, non-qualified attestation still carries useful evidence value, but without that legal presumption.

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