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How to register as an EUDI Wallet relying party

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Who registers

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Article 5b(1) says: “Where a relying party intends to rely upon European Digital Identity Wallets for the provision of public or private services by means of digital interaction, the relying party shall register in the Member State where it is established.”

  • This applies whether wallet acceptance is a legal duty for you (see Deadlines) or your own choice.
  • Intermediaries acting on behalf of relying parties are themselves deemed to be relying parties (Article 5b(10)). See Intermediary or own verifier?.
  • Under 2025/848, “wallet-relying party” also covers providers of person identification data (PID) and of electronic attestations of attributes, who register with the matching entitlement (Annex I, point 12). This guide focuses on service providers.

What you must declare

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Article 5b(2) sets the legal minimum:

  1. The information needed to authenticate to wallets: at least your Member State of establishment and your name and, where applicable, your registration number in an official record with identification data of that record.
  2. Your contact details.
  3. Your intended use of the wallet, including an indication of the data you will request from users.

Implementing Regulation 2025/848 turns this into a fixed list of 16 points in Annex I (point 16 was added by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1730). The field-by-field list is on Registration requirements under CIR 2025/848.

The process, step by step

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The EU rules fix the outcome and some minimum safeguards. The exact screens, documents and timeframes depend on your national registrar.

  1. Find your registrar. Each Member State has at least one national register and at least one registrar (Article 3(1) and (3) of 2025/848). Check the status by Member State.
  2. Read the national registration policy. Member States must publish one or more policies covering identification procedures, supporting documents, authentic sources, automated registration and redress (Article 4(3)).
  3. Prepare your information. Use the registration checklist: legal identifiers, trade name, contact points, each intended use, the attributes for each use and a privacy policy URL.
  4. Submit electronically. Registrars must offer easy-to-use electronic, and where possible automated, processes (Article 6(1)).
  5. Verification by the registrar. Where possible by automated means, the registrar checks the accuracy, validity, authenticity and integrity of your identification information (Annex I points 1 to 6 and 11 to 16), any power of attorney of your representative, and that you are not already registered in another national register (Article 6(3), as amended by 2026/1730).
  6. No pre-authorisation of your data list. Your contact details, service description, attribute lists and intended-use descriptions (Annex I points 7 to 10) are collected “only for the purpose of transparency”, and registrars “shall not apply any preauthorisation process on this information”, without prejudice to Article 5b(4) (new Article 6(3a) of 2025/848, inserted by 2026/1730).
  7. Decision. If the registrar cannot verify the information, it “shall reject the registration” (Article 6(6)). Each national policy must include a redress mechanism (Article 4(3)(f)).
  8. Certificates. After registration, the authorised providers issue your access certificate(s) and registration certificate(s). Registration certificates must be issued “in an automated manner and without undue delay after the registration” (Article 8(1), as amended).
  9. Publication. Your registration information is published in the national register, online, in human-readable and machine-readable form (Article 5b(5) of the Regulation and Article 3(4) of 2025/848).

After registration

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  • Keep it current. Information must be accurate at registration and updated without undue delay (Article 5(2) and (3) of 2025/848; Article 5b(6) of the Regulation).
  • Request only what you registered. Article 5b(3): relying parties “shall not request users to provide any data other than that indicated”. Over-asking is a ground for suspension or cancellation (Article 9(2)(c) of 2025/848). See What data can you request?.
  • Leaving. If you no longer intend to rely on wallets, notify the registrar and request cancellation (Article 6(7)).

What is not settled yet

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  • Fees. The Regulation requires a “cost-effective and proportionate-to-risk” process (Article 5b(2)) but sets no fee. Whether registration is free depends on national law.
  • Timeframes. The registrar must respond within the timeframe set in the national policy (Article 6(2)). No EU-wide maximum is set.
  • Exact procedure. Supporting documents and identification methods are national choices under Article 4.
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Last reviewed: 28 Oct 2026

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