The EU eIDAS2.0
regulation
The verifiable trust infrastructure for eIDAS 2.0
The Sphereon VDX Verifiable Data Layer, enterprise wallets, and EUDI-ready tooling: production-grade infrastructure for organizations that want to issue, verify, and manage verifiable credentials at scale and must comply with the new eIDAS 2.0 regulation.
Understanding the landscape
Build your roadmap and prepare your team for the 2026 European digital identity requirements.
A comprehensive guide to the regulation, its impact on data sovereignty, and the shift toward cryptographically secured verifiable data sharing.
Stay informed on the critical milestones, technical standards, and legal deadlines leading up to the 2026 enforcement.
eIDAS 2.0 compliance accelerator →
A structured training and enablement program designed to analyse the impact on your organization and prepare your team for the eIDAS 2.0 and ARF requirements.
Build on Sphereon
Production-ready components for every layer of the verifiable credential stack: issuance, verification, policy, and wallet.
The operational layer for trust resolution, policy enforcement, and verifiable evidence. Use VDX to bridge existing systems with the new NIS2 and eIDAS regulations.
Configure, issue and manage credentials for your organization, business attributes and identities through a secure, web-based application.
Explore the aspects and requirements for individual digital identity wallets and Sphereon’s implementation of the personal mobile wallets.
Sphereon VDX is the Trusted Data Layer latform that brings these benefits into your existing systems. It turns documents and data into instantly verifiable proofs. Issue, share, and verify data and documents across systems using open standards. It provides you with independently verifiable audit trail for regulators while reducing exposure of data and documents.
Business benefits you can feel quickly
Faster onboarding and checkout. Less abandonment. Lower KYC/AML overhead by relying on verified attributes and qualified trust services rather than manual reviews. And because eIDAS 2.0 is backed by a cybersecurity certification scheme for wallets, CISOs and auditors gain a common baseline for acceptance and vendor due diligence.
The net effect for your organisation: fewer manual checks and simpler compliance, resulting in less fraud, faster processing, and lower costs.
Mandatory acceptance will drive adoption
Public services that require Private Identity Data must accept the wallet by the end of 2026. Private organizations in regulated sectors like banking, energy, transport, healthcare, education, telecom and others will accept the wallet upon a user’s request when strong authentication is already required: no later than 36 months from the relevant Implementing Acts.
Very Large Online Platforms (like Amazon, AliExpress, Booking.com, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn) that require user authentication under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), must also accept the wallet, must also accept wallet when they require users to log in.
Privacy-first: getting more control over your own data
Using an EU Digital Identity Wallet is a choice: the regulation makes it a right, not an obligation. You can start or stop using a wallet at any time.
Your information stays with you, until you choose to share it. And each share needs your explicit consents. Relying parties receive a secure confirmation, not a file to stockpile, which lowers exposure and the risk of misuse. You get faster approvals and fewer forms, while keeping real control over how and when your data is shared.
Member States must also provide at least one wallet (free of charge) to natural persons.
Timeline at a glance
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Detail timeline- 20-05-2024: EU-Regulation 2024/1183 has entered into force.
- 21-11-2024: Initial Implementation Acts by all EU Member States.
- 21-05-2025: Update Implementation Acts.
- 31-12-2026: Mandatory Issuance of at least one EUDI Wallet.
- 31-12-2026: Mandatory Acceptance by (semi-)public bodies.
- 31-12-2027: Mandatory Acceptance by most other organizations.