On Thursday 29 June, after 9 hours of interinstitutional negotiations (‘trilogues’), the Council of the EU and the European Parliament reached an agreement on the key elements of the future European Digital Identity Wallet (‘eID’) (see EUROPE B13210A17).
“We have political agreement on the key elements of the proposal. The European Digital Identity framework is a game-changing piece of legislation that will drive the digitalisation of the public sector and society as a whole”,...