Your voice is needed: Implementing Act on QERDS under a public consultation

On 15 April 2025, the European Commission has published for a public consultation a third batch of draft Implementing Acts for the European Digital Identity Regulation that provides the legal and technical basis for the electronic identification and trust services.
These 12 draft Implementing Acts focus mostly on trust services. All interested stakeholders are invited to provide their feedback by 13 May 2025. By providing feedback you are actively contributing to shaping the future of trust services and the European Digital Identity Framework. The new draft Implementing Act on Qualified electronic registered delivery services will be of particular relevance for eDelivery stakeholders.

How to provide feedback?

You can provide feedback by participating in the open public consultation. Visit the "Have your say" platform, review the draft Implementing Acts that you wish to comment on and submit your feedback using the online form provided. The public consultation is open until 13 May 2025.

What are the new Implementing Acts?

• Qualified electronic registered delivery services: Sets out a list of reference standards and, where necessary, establishes specifications and procedures for processes for sending and receiving data in the context of qualified electronic registered delivery services.
• Management of remote qualified electronic signature creation devices (rQSCDs): Establishes the reference standards for the management of remote qualified electronic signature creation devices and qualified electronic seal creation devices as qualified trust services.
• Qualified certificates for electronic signatures and qualified certificates for electronic seals: Sets out the reference standards and requirements relating to qualified certificates for electronic signatures and qualified certificates for electronic seals.
• Validation of qualified electronic signatures/seals and advanced electronic signatures/seals based on qualified certificates: Sets out a list of reference standards and, where necessary, establishes specifications and procedures for the validation of qualified electronic signatures and qualified electronic seals and of advanced electronic signatures and advanced electronic seals based on qualified certificates.
• Qualified preservation services for qualified electronic signatures/seals: Sets out a list of reference standards and, where necessary, establishes specifications and procedures for the qualified preservation service for qualified electronic signatures and for qualified electronic seals.
• Notifications of certified qualified electronic signature/seal creation devices: Sets out the formats and procedures for the notification by Member States on certified qualified electronic signature/seal creation devices to the Commission, and on the cancellation of their certification, as applicable.
• Verification of identity and of attributes when issuing qualified certificates or qualified electronic attestations of attributes: Establishes the required specifications and methods, including relevant standards for qualified trust service providers to verify the identity and attributes of natural or legal persons when issuing attestations.
• Initiation of qualified trust services: Establishes the formats and procedures for notifying supervisory bodies of trust service providers intention to offer qualified trust services.
• Qualified validation services for qualified electronic signatures/seals: Sets out reference standards and, where necessary, establishes specifications and procedures for qualified validation services for qualified electronic signatures and for qualified electronic seals.
• Qualified timestamps: Sets out reference standards and, where necessary, establishes specifications and procedures for the binding of date and time to data and for establishing the accuracy of time sources with regards to qualified electronic time stamps.
• Annual reports from supervisory bodies: Sets out the formats and procedures for the annual reports of the designated supervisory bodies responsible for the supervision of the European Digital Identity Wallets and of the designated supervisory bodies responsible for the supervision of trust services.
• Procedural arrangements for peer reviews of electronic identification schemes: Sets out the provisions on the procedural arrangements for the peer reviews of electronic identification schemes to be notified by Member States to the Commission.

For more information, please contact us via our portal or by e-mail: EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu.

eDelivery Building Block

eDelivery is a Building Block that provides technical specifications and standards, installable software and ancillary services to allow projects to create a network of nodes for secure digital data exchange.

DomiSML 5.0 RC1 now available: a leap forward for secure service discovery

The Release Candidate (RC1) of DomiSML 5.0 is available as of 11 April 2025, marking a significant step forward in the evolution of the eDelivery Service Metadata Locator (SML). This version introduces major enhancements in security, performance and administration.

DomiSML is the European Commission's sample implementation of the SML. This component of the eDelivery network infrastructure plays a key role in dynamic discovery, allowing participants to locate each other's message exchange capabilities, thus enabling secure and seamless communication across domains.

What DomiSML 5.0 brings

The Final Release (FR) of DomiSML 5.0 is scheduled for 15 May 2025.

This version brings compatibility with Java 21 and Jakarta EE 10, ensuring modernisation and long-term maintainability. It also features improved administration tools, enhanced logging and support for external secret management services (vaults). Notably, it adds support for multiple NAPTR records per SMP, a frequently requested capability, especially useful for organisations implementing SMP 2.0.

DomiSML 5.0 RC1 currently supports Tomcat 10.1 as its only application server. Organisations using WebLogic 12cR2 or WebLogic 14c are encouraged to remain on DomiSML 4.3.x, which will continue to receive security and maintenance updates.

DomiSML 4.3.x will be maintained until WebLogic supports Jakarta EE 10, and for at least three months after the final release of the next DomiSML version that includes WebLogic support. For more details, refer to the Oracle Fusion Middleware Statement of Direction.

A maintenance release (DomiSML 5.0.1) is also planned for 19 December 2025 to include updates to third-party dependencies and resolve any critical issues identified in the meantime.

Download & test

We invite all users to test the RC1 version version and begin preparing for migration to DomiSML 5.0 to benefit from its full set of improvements.

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National eDelivery implementations in action: recording now available

On 3 April 2025, the eDelivery team hosted a live webinar featuring real-world national implementations of eDelivery from Denmark, Norway and Slovenia. We would like to thank all the presenters and participants who joined us.

If you could not attend, you can now watch the full recording and catch up on the insights shared:

What was covered

This edition of the eDelivery value proposition webinar explored how European countries are using eDelivery not only as a technical standard but as a strategic tool to build trusted and interoperable public services. The overview of eDelivery is briefly summarised here.

🇩🇰 Denmark: MedCom's EHMI for modern healthcare messaging

MedCom, Denmark's healthcare data coordinator, is rolling out the Enhanced Healthcare Messaging Infrastructure (EHMI)—a modern national system for exchanging healthcare messages. At the heart of EHMI lies eDelivery, which serves as the secure transport layer across all participating entities.

What makes EHMI stand out is the addition of key healthcare-specific services: a national addressing system, real-time delivery tracking and flexible message governance. Combined, these services create an agile, standards-aligned infrastructure ready to support Denmark's transition to cross-border eHealth communication (for example, MyHealth@EU).

EHMI is currently in a production pilot phase and already being adopted by municipalities. It was previously a prototype discussed in early eDelivery community meetings, and it is now becoming one of the most advanced sector-specific adaptations of the eDelivery framework.

🎬 Watch MedCom's presentation | 📄 Slides | 🌐 EHMI website

🇳🇴 Norway: building a national eDelivery backbone

Digdir, the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, shared how eDelivery is shaping their reference architecture for digital interaction. Norway's eDelivery infrastructure is designed to support the public sector's shift from siloed systems to a connected ecosystem, facilitating collaboration across services and sectors.

At the centre is ELDIN, the national secure delivery platform. But Norway’s ambitions go further: eDelivery is seen as a cross-domain enabler, linking national services with EU-wide frameworks like Once-Only Technical System (OOTS) and MyHealth@EU. Current efforts focus on governance, interoperability and scaling trust models between organisations.

The Norwegian approach illustrates how eDelivery can be used not just for transport, but as a blueprint for national architecture—blending reusability and flexibility.

🎬 Watch Digdir’s presentation | 📄 Slides | 🌐 Digdir website

🇸🇮 Slovenia: Court Mail Logistics with eDelivery AS4

Slovenia's Supreme Court presented its innovative Court Mail Logistics system, which uses eDelivery AS4 for secure electronic delivery of judicial documents. This national system has been running since 2018, replacing paper-based processes in civil and criminal court procedures.

The system uses an open-source, eDelivery-conformant Access Point software called Laurentius, developed by the court itself. It works with external service providers who operate digital mailboxes and offer services such as archiving and system integration. Together, they form a dynamic delivery network, compliant with national law and scalable across use cases.

Inspired by the e-CODEX project and based on the OASIS ebMS 3.0 standard, Slovenia also developed its national profile (SVEV 2.0)—a key milestone towards broader digital transformation. This model is now being considered for expansion into other domains of public communication.

🎬 Watch Slovenia's presentation | 📄 Slides | 🌐 Sodisce website

🇩🇰 Denmark: digital bookkeeping infrastructure by the Danish Business Authority

Closing the webinar, the Danish Business Authority (ERST) showcased its secure infrastructure for digital bookkeeping, powered by eDelivery. Under new legislation, all Danish enterprises are required to use digital accounting systems—and ERST built the necessary backbone to support this shift.

The key component is NemHandelsregisteret (NHR), a centralised Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) that allows businesses and authorities to discover each other's endpoints. It is free to use, integrates with Denmark's national business registry (CVR), and follows Peppol and eDelivery standards, ensuring EU compatibility.

This implementation demonstrates how eDelivery can support national regulatory frameworks, create new services and reduce compliance friction for businesses.

🎬 Watch ERST's presentation | 📄 Slides | 🌐 ERST website

What we learnt

Across all four examples, a few key themes emerged:

• eDelivery is being used strategically to modernise national infrastructure.
• Countries are adapting eDelivery to fit specific sectors, such as healthcare, justice and business.
• Each implementation balances technical choices with policy, governance and trust-building.
• Open source, European standards and interoperability are essential for long-term sustainability.

Reflections from the community

The webinar also surfaced key reflections that go beyond national implementations, pointing toward shared priorities across the eDelivery community:

• Interoperable hubs are key: There is a growing need for bridges that connect sectors, Member States and EU-level infrastructures—especially in multi-domain or cross-border scenarios.
• Role-based access and identity management: Highlighted by the Norwegian case, this is emerging as a crucial requirement. A broader community discussion is needed on how to integrate role-based authentication and access control into future versions of eDelivery.
• Beyond transport—towards semantic and legal interoperability: Countries are embedding eDelivery within broader digital architectures that also address governance, semantics and trust.

If you have ideas or needs related to these topics, we invite you to share them by submitting a formal change request via the eDelivery Governance page.

Get involved

Do you have your own eDelivery implementation? We would love to feature your story in a future webinar!

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