What is the EU Digital Identity Wallet for businesses?
Adopted 2026-06-14 · ≈ 2 min read · 
edited by Dirk Baaijen
The EU Digital Identity Wallet is a government-recognised digital wallet under eIDAS 2.0 (Regulation (EU) 2024/1183). Member States must offer it to businesses by end 2026. It enables cross-border identification, e-signatures and verifiable credentials.
Short answer: The EU Digital Identity Wallet is a government-recognised digital wallet under eIDAS 2.0 (Regulation (EU) 2024/1183) that lets businesses identify themselves across the EU, sign documents and share verifiable credentials.
What it is and when it arrives
The wallet stems from eIDAS 2.0, formally Regulation (EU) 2024/1183, which entered into force on 20 May 2024. The regulation requires Member States to offer an EU Digital Identity Wallet by end 2026 — not only to citizens, but explicitly to businesses as well. Large online platforms must accept the wallet as a means of login and identification from end 2027. For a company, this means a trusted, EU-wide way to prove who you are and what you are entitled to do.
What a business can do with it
The wallet bundles three kinds of functionality. First, cross-border identification: a single recognised identity means that works in every Member State, so a company from one country can legitimise itself in another without detours. Second, qualified electronic signatures and seals, carrying the same legal value as a wet-ink signature or company stamp. Third, verifiable credentials: verifiable proofs of, for example, permits, certificates or registrations that a counterparty can check digitally and instantly.
Why this matters for transport and logistics
For the sector, the wallet is most interesting as a trust layer beneath digital freight documents. When documents such as the eCMR and information shared via eFTI are exchanged electronically, it is essential that signatories and issued certificates can be reliably established. The wallet provides that assurance: a driver, carrier or shipper can attach their identity and authorisations in a verifiable way. In addition, the wallet accelerates B2B onboarding and KYC processes, because company details and authorisations are available from one trusted source rather than being requested and checked over and over again.
Read the main file: eIDAS 2.0 and the Digital Identity Wallet. Or take the Transport & Logistics scan.
Sources
- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1183/oj
Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 (eIDAS 2.0); EU Digital Identity Wallet.
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