Requirements GuideEU

EU eIDAS Requirements

A requirements breakdown you can implement: controls, tests, evidence, and operating cadence.

Optimized for teams building trust services and EUDI Wallet relying party readiness.

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Sorena AI
Published
Feb 21, 2026
Updated
Feb 21, 2026
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Sorena AI
Published Feb 21, 2026
Updated Feb 21, 2026
Overview

eIDAS requirements vary by role, but the amended framework is more concrete than many teams realize. Trust-service providers, relying parties, wallet actors, and organizations that depend on qualified services need a live operating model tied to the consolidated regulation, current implementing acts, standards, and supervisory evidence. Use this page to map the legal text into build, run, monitor, and audit tasks.

Section 1

Requirements by role (start here)

Your compliance program depends on whether you provide trust services (TSP/QTSP), rely on trust services (relying party), or build wallet-related flows (eIDAS 2.0).

Most organizations need a combined view (e.g., relying party + QTSP customer + wallet readiness).

  • Relying party: validate signatures, certificates, wallets, and attestations; log decisions; and enforce data minimization and transparency.
  • TSP or QTSP: implement security, identity proofing, audit readiness, incident handling, and supervision-facing evidence for each service scope.
  • Wallet provider or issuer: implement wallet capabilities, certification readiness, person-identification data or attribute issuance controls, and interoperability testing.
  • Compliance and security owners: governance, vendor oversight, evidence indexing, and continuous control testing across the full stack.
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Section 2

Trust services workstream (what you must implement and prove)

Trust services are not only cryptography - they are supervised, auditable services with lifecycle responsibilities.

Implement trust services as a system: issuance, signing, validation, revocation, preservation, and customer support processes.

  • Signature and seal capability: supported formats, signing ceremonies, remote signing device management where relevant, and deterministic validation logic.
  • Certificate lifecycle: issuance, renewal, revocation, status publication, key-management controls, and audit traces.
  • Time stamping, registered delivery, archiving, and ledgers: integrity controls, evidence records, service-specific operating procedures, and retention rules.
  • Long-term validation or preservation: evidence records, archival strategy, migration plans, and export capability for disputes or audits.
Section 3

QTSP security + supervision expectations (what audits focus on)

Qualified trust services bring a higher bar: supervision, periodic assessments, and strict operational controls.

The amended regulation also creates a transition point. QTSPs granted qualified status before 20 May 2024 must submit a conformity assessment report covering Article 24(1), (1a), and (1b) by 21 May 2026, while some older identity-proofing methods continue only through the transitional window.

  • Security framework: policies, access control, secure operations, incident handling, and business continuity aligned to guidance.
  • Supervision readiness: evidence that controls operate and that you can respond quickly to audits and supervisory requests.
  • EU trust mark usage and service qualification communication: consistency and truthfulness of claims by service type.
  • Supplier and dependency assurance: crypto modules, HSMs, remote signing components, and critical vendors with due diligence and monitoring.
Section 4

EUDI Wallet (eIDAS 2.0) requirements (capabilities you may need)

eIDAS 2.0 introduces EUDI Wallet obligations and ecosystem roles. Even if you are not a wallet provider, you may need relying-party readiness because the Commission adopted five core wallet implementing regulations in late 2024 and Member States must make at least one wallet available by the end of 2026.

Treat wallet readiness as a capability: verifier pipeline, attribute governance, interoperability tests, privacy evidence, and change management tied to evolving implementing acts.

  • Verifier pipeline: authenticity and validity checks, revocation or status handling, deterministic decision outputs, and logs.
  • Attribute flows: schema governance, disclosure policies, minimal-attribute request patterns, and handling of qualified electronic attestations of attributes.
  • User transparency: user-facing explanations and traceable logs of transactions and data sharing.
  • Interoperability: conformance and compatibility tests aligned to Commission reference materials, ARF releases, and the wallet implementing regulations.
Section 5

Evidence mapping (requirement -> control -> test -> artifact)

The fastest way to reduce compliance risk is to build an evidence index that is reproducible and always current.

Avoid static PDFs as "evidence". Use systems-of-record artifacts plus test results and change logs.

  • Policy layer: trust service policy, security policy, incident response, and change management policies.
  • Control layer: access control, key management, signing/validation services, logging, monitoring, and BC/DR controls.
  • Test layer: interoperability tests, negative tests, audit sampling results, and periodic control effectiveness tests.
  • Artifact layer: trust list records, certificates, validation reports, audit reports, and supervisory communications.
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