The EU Commission has taken the initiative to set up the European blockchain regulatory sandbox. The objectives of the programme are to break down the walls between innovation and regulation, enhancing dialogue and understanding of the regulatory issues as well as legal certainty and to develop best practices across sectors and EU/EEA regions.
The sandbox is a facility that brings together national and EU regulators, companies and tech experts to test innovative solutions and identify obstacles from a legal & regulatory perspective in a safe environment.
The EU Commission has procured the set up and operation of the European blockchain regulatory sandbox and has selected Bird & Bird and its consulting arm OXYGY for this task. The consortium is supported by blockchain experts from WBNoDE with a wealth of experience in blockchain technologies across different sectors. The selection of use cases will be supervised by a panel of three independent experts.
The regulatory sandbox is not only about EBSI (the European Blockchain services infrastructure). This is a sandbox for both private and the public sector use cases across sectors and regions. The sandbox is also not limited to a specific blockchain infrastructure.
Latest updates
This section of the page will continously update during the course of the project. (Last updated: 23rd January 2023)
EC News item - a short summary of the news item with a hyperlink
Consortium News Item
Consortium News Item - presenting the application process
Project Structure
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Key documents
The European Blockchain Sandbox project operates on a strict European Commission mandate and along defined quality and operations parameters. In the project, candidates and participants are required to sign and commit to such parameters. Please click on the hyperlinked title for access to all key documents.