About

The eIDAS Regulation provides the tools for EU citizens, business, and public administrations to confidently go digital, whether it concerns making use of financial services, participating in tenders, or accessing public services.

With the eIDAS Observatory we aim to build a virtual community of stakeholders in order to foster a common understanding of the issues relating to the implementation and uptake of the eIDAS Regulation thereby facilitating the use of cross-border electronic identification and trust services as enablers for the Digital Single Market.

The Observatory will foster transparency and accountability by identifying market hurdles and good practices, promoting knowledge-sharing and developing initiatives for innovation. It will contribute to the enhancement of trust and security of digital transactions, including in the global context, and thus contributing to the building of the Digital Single Market.

Who is the eIDAS Observatory for?

The Observatory is a virtual community open to everyone – individuals, businesses and public administrations – to exchange views and positions.

We would like you to bring your experience, technical skills and knowledge to provide evidence-based and data-driven policy support for the EU. We encourage representation of various economic sectors, especially those where sector-specific legal and policy instruments foresee the need for electronic identification and/or trust services.

We also welcome discussions and thoughts on the role of eID and trust services as enablers for the actions foreseen in the context of the recently adopted Communications on eGovernment Action Plan, ICT standardisation and on-line platforms.

What is the aim of the eIDAS Observatory?

We would like stakeholders to engage in a fruitful discussion with a view to:

Discover

  • Identify possible issues that could create regulatory or other hurdles which stand in the way of the wide uptake of eID and trust services.

  • Identify good practices or mechanisms in the user/provider eIDAS value-chain to ensure that a balance between the actors in the online supply/demand chain is guaranteed.

Analyse

  • Serve as a high-level strategic independent environment to share and analyse modalities of functioning and use of electronic identification and trust services.

  • Provide data, tools and databases to support eID and trust services, thus fostering market digitisation and transparency.

  • Find ways to overcome regulatory hurdles in accordance with the Better Regulation approach.

Recommend

  • Provide evidence-based recommendations to EU policymakers on how to shape effective policies to ensure transparency in the market, build trust for electronic identification and trust services and benefit digital transactions as well as to support product innovation and creativity.

  • Make concrete proposals to remove market or regulatory hurdles.

  • Develop codes for cooperation across sectors and regulatory regimes to easily manage risk.

  • Put forward eIDAS-related initiatives to help innovators, creators and businesses (especially SMEs) build trust and security online and enhance transparency in the market.

  • Propose knowledge and learning programmes on eIDAS-related issues for Internet service providers, certification authorities and enforcement authorities as well as for business leaders and private sector decision-makers.

  • Design campaigns to raise awareness of online identification and trust services and data sharing.