Member States discussed the latest version of the French Presidency’s compromise text on the establishment of a framework for the future European Digital Identity Wallet (see EUROPE 12957/16) at a meeting of the Council of the European Union’s Telecommunications Working Party on Monday 23 May.
The new version of the compromise document requires stakeholders to communicate to Member States their intention to use Digital Identity Wallets and to specify the use they intend to make of them, including a list of services that will rely on the wallet.
In allowing the wallet to verify for itself that the entities concerned have the right to provide certain types of services, this will strengthen the fight against fraud and prevent the illegal use of identity data, while ensuring that the processing of sensitive data is in accordance with national or EU law.
In addition, the French Presidency of the EU Council reiterates its wish that the regulation should not distinguish between documents created digitally and physical documents that have been digitised.
Finally, the text also returns to the issue of trust service providers and their cross-border recognition. On this point, the paper argues that the granting of ‘qualified status’ could provide “legal certainty to public and private sector actors for the reliability of electronic data registers”.
Qualified trust service providers, on the other hand, would be required to ensure that in the event of part of their services being outsourced to a third country, monitoring activities and audits can be carried out as if they were taking place within the EU.
See the document: https://aeur.eu/f/1v7 (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)