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.