Published: 08.05.2025.
The EU Digital Identity Wallet will be a mobile electronic identification tool that allows citizens and businesses to securely, quickly, and conveniently prove their identity and exchange personalized data in the digital environment for public and private services.
Using the EU Digital Identity Wallet will be voluntary for all EU residents. The app is intended as an additional solution designed to simplify the daily lives of EU citizens, including Latvians, and provide access to a wide range of services throughout the EU—quickly, conveniently, and securely.
In practice, the EU Digital Identity Wallet will function as an app on a smart device. After downloading and installing the app, users will be able to use a state-issued identity document to install it, and then - store and share various personal data within the wallet—choosing which data sets to share with service providers.
The development of the EU Digital Identity Wallet is part of the EU Digital Decade policy program “Path to the Digital Decade” and follows the requirements of the revised eIDAS regulation.
The goal is to address current issues with digital identification in the EU, particularly the technical fragmentation of solutions between Member States, which limits access to electronic services.
- Convenient – access services across the EU, both online and offline, using your personal smart device
- Reliable – a government-issued and EU-recognized solution that complies with strict EU data protection and security standards
- Secure – only you control whether, to whom, and how your data is shared
It is expected that the digital wallet will be used for a wide range of purposes, such as:
- Logging into various platforms
- Making different types of payments
- Verifying educational documents
- Presenting mobile driver's license
- Accessing various public and private services
- Registering at hotels, flights, or car rentals
- Registering SIM cards
The features offered by the EU Digital Identity Wallet will not be limited and can be expanded depending on user and service provider feedback and needs.
The EU Digital Identity Wallet is expected to be implemented across the EU by December 24, 2026.
In Latvia, the Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development, which is responsible for implementing the eIDAS 2.0 regulation, has tasked the State Digital Development Agency with organizing the rollout of the EU Digital Identity Wallet.
Currently, the Ministry, together with its partners, is participating in one of the large-scale pilot projects—NOBID—which is developing a prototype of the EU Digital Identity Wallet and testing a payment use case within it.