Yes, the EUDI Wallet can store both driving licences and passports. Under eIDAS 2.0, which amends Regulation (EU) 910/2014, the European Digital Identity Wallet is designed to hold official identity documents in digital form, including mobile driving licences and travel documents such as passports. Member States are required to make these wallets available to all citizens, residents, and businesses by 24 December 2026. This article walks through how each document type works, what makes them legally valid, and when you can expect them to be available.
Which documents can the EUDI Wallet actually store?
The EUDI Wallet is designed to store a wide range of official and personal documents in digital form. This includes driving licences, passports, visa information, health insurance cards, educational diplomas, prescriptions, and employment credentials. The wallet acts as a secure, user-controlled container for any document that can be issued as a verified digital attestation by an authorised organisation.
The Large Scale Pilots that tested the wallet across 26 EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, and Ukraine explored a range of real-world use cases. These give a clear picture of the document types the wallet is built to support:
- Government-issued identity documents such as national IDs and passports
- Mobile driving licences for both online and physical verification
- European Health Insurance Cards
- Educational certificates, diplomas, and degrees
- Prescription details for use at pharmacies
- Organisational identity credentials proving you represent a company
- Social security documents and benefit access credentials
The key principle behind the wallet is selective disclosure. You do not have to share an entire document to prove one fact about yourself. For example, you can confirm your age without revealing your home address. This privacy-first approach is built into the eIDAS 2.0 regulation itself.
How does the EUDI Wallet store a driving licence digitally?
The EUDI Wallet stores a driving licence as a mobile driving licence (mDL), a standardised digital attestation issued by the relevant national authority. The mDL is a structured, tamper-evident data object that can be presented both online and in person, such as during a roadside check.
The mobile driving licence use case was one of the most actively tested scenarios in the Large Scale Pilots, in particular within the POTENTIAL consortium. In a physical interaction, the wallet presents the licence data directly from your smartphone to an authorised reader, using the proximity presentation standard ISO/IEC 18013-5. In an online context, the same attestation can be used to verify your driving entitlements using ISO/IEC TS 18013-7, without needing to upload a document or enter details manually.
Verification of an mDL involves three distinct checks. First, the verifier checks the issuer’s signature against the relevant national trusted list, which forms part of the EU List of Trusted Lists (LOTL). This check can be performed offline. Second, the verifier checks the revocation status of the attestation using status information provided by the issuer, which requires a connection. Third, the verifier checks the wallet unit attestation to confirm that the presenting wallet is running on a certified wallet solution. Because the mDL is issued and signed by a trusted national authority, the signature check itself does not require contacting the issuer in real time, but full verification is not entirely offline. You stay in control throughout: selective disclosure means you choose which data fields to share, so a car rental company can confirm you hold a valid licence without seeing your date of birth or home address.
Can a passport be stored in the EUDI Wallet?
Yes, passport information can be stored in the EUDI Wallet in the form of a Digital Travel Credential (DTC). This is a verified digital representation of the data your physical passport contains, issued by the relevant national authority and cryptographically secured. It can be used to confirm your identity and travel entitlements at border crossings, airports, and other access points.
The EU Digital Identity Wallet Consortium (EWC), one of the four Large Scale Pilot programmes, focused specifically on Digital Travel Credentials across Member States. Its work explored what it would take to use your wallet at airport security and customs, as a complement to the physical passport inspection process. These scenarios were piloted and are not yet operational in regular use.
The Digital Travel Credential in the wallet complements the physical passport. Legal recognition for border crossings involving third countries outside the EU depends on international agreements that are still developing. Within the EU, the groundwork is being laid for wallet-based travel documents to be accepted as legally equivalent to physical ones. The pace at which this becomes practical will vary by Member State and by the specific border or access context involved.
What is the difference between a digital document and a verifiable attestation?
A digital document is an electronic version of a paper record, such as a PDF of a certificate or a scanned ID. A verifiable attestation is a structured, machine-readable data object that has been cryptographically signed by its issuer. Any receiving party can check that the attestation is genuine and unaltered by verifying that signature against the issuer’s entry on the relevant national trusted list. The EUDI Wallet stores verifiable attestations, not static digital documents.
This distinction matters in practice. A PDF can be forged or altered without detection. A verifiable attestation is tamper-evident: any modification breaks the cryptographic signature. When you present an attestation from your wallet, the verifier checks the issuer signature, the revocation status, and the wallet unit attestation. The attestation itself carries the information needed for the signature check, but revocation and wallet unit checks require additional lookups.
Verifiable attestations also support selective disclosure in a way that static documents cannot. A traditional passport shows everything at once. An attestation derived from your passport data can be configured to reveal only the specific attributes the situation requires, such as your nationality for a border check, without exposing your full date of birth or address. This is one of the core privacy improvements that eIDAS 2.0 credentials introduce compared to existing identity documents.
Are EUDI Wallet documents legally valid across EU Member States?
Under eIDAS 2.0, attestations stored in the EUDI Wallet are intended to be legally valid and mutually recognised across all EU Member States. The regulation requires Member States to accept each other’s notified electronic identity schemes, and the EUDI Wallet is designed to operate as a standardised, interoperable framework that works across borders. It is important to distinguish between the legal framework for mutual recognition and the practical reality of cross-border interoperability, which will develop in phases as national implementations mature and are formally certified and notified.
Cross-border recognition is one of the central problems eIDAS 2.0 was designed to address. The original eIDAS regulation, Regulation (EU) 910/2014, created a framework for mutual recognition, but uptake was uneven and private sector participation was limited. The updated regulation extends recognition obligations and opens the framework to private sector relying parties, meaning that regulated businesses in sectors such as banking, healthcare, and telecoms will be required to accept wallet-based attestations for relevant services, subject to their own sector-specific deadlines.
In practical terms, a certified wallet from one Member State can be used with an appropriate relying party in another Member State. A mobile driving licence issued by a German authority should, within this framework, be accepted by a car rental company in Spain. A university diploma issued as a verifiable attestation in the Netherlands should be readable and trusted by an employer in France. This does not mean that national registration requirements or sector-specific legislation disappear, or that every attestation will automatically carry the same legal consequence in every context. The interoperability standards developed through the Large Scale Pilots are designed to make technical and legal recognition work in real-world conditions, but some use cases will become available earlier than others, and national rollout will not be uniform.
When will driving licences and passports be available in the EUDI Wallet?
Under eIDAS 2.0, each EU Member State must have at least one certified EUDI Wallet operational for citizens, residents, and businesses by 24 December 2026. From that date, public authorities and public service providers are required to accept notified wallets as a means of identification for online services where electronic identification is required. Driving licences and passport-based travel credentials are among the priority use cases, with the Large Scale Pilots having tested these scenarios extensively in the lead-up to this rollout.
The timeline has progressed in structured phases. The revised eIDAS regulation entered into force on 20 May 2024, marking the starting point for subsequent deadlines. By the end of 2024, the first five core implementing acts had been adopted, covering technical specifications, security standards, and interoperability rules for the EUDI Wallet. These implementing acts started the relevant 24-month period. In 2025, a second wave of implementing acts was published, addressing qualified electronic archiving, validation, certificates, and qualified trust service providers (QTSPs). On 6 May 2025, CIR (EU) 2025/848 on the registration of wallet relying parties was adopted.
The four Large Scale Pilot programmes, launched in April 2023, ran until 2025 and collected real-world feedback on the wallet’s technical specifications, security, and usability. The POTENTIAL consortium tested mobile driving licences, among other use cases. The EWC consortium focused on Digital Travel Credentials, payments, and organisational digital identity. DC4EU covered education and social security. NOBID focused on payments. The insights from these pilots feed directly into the Architecture and Reference Framework (ARF), which provides the technical elaboration of the requirements set out in the implementing acts and which Member States use to guide their wallet implementations. A second wave of pilots started in 2025, with WE BUILD focusing on business wallets and payments, and APTITUDE covering travel, ticketing, vehicle registration, and payments.
Availability will not be uniform across all countries on the same date. 24 December 2026 is the legal deadline for Member States’ wallet obligations. It is not a guarantee that every national wallet will reach the same level of maturity simultaneously, or that every possible cross-border use case will be fully operational throughout Europe from that date. Some Member States are further along in their implementation than others, and the specific documents available at launch will depend on what each national authority has prioritised. Mobile driving licences and digital travel credentials are high on the list, but full deployment across all use cases will be a gradual process through 2026 and beyond. Certification and notification of individual wallet solutions, as well as acceptance by relying parties, will each follow their own timelines. Organisations should plan for a phased rollout across different countries and use cases.
For regulated private sector organisations, a separate acceptance obligation applies from 24 December 2027 under Article 5f of eIDAS 2.0. This covers sectors including banking and financial services, healthcare, telecoms, energy, transport, education, social security, drinking water, postal services, digital infrastructure, and digital services, where strong user authentication is legally or contractually required. Micro and small enterprises, defined as organisations with fewer than 50 employees and an annual turnover or balance sheet total of no more than 10 million euros, are exempt. Very large online platforms (VLOPs) fall under a separate provision of Article 5f: for VLOPs, the obligation applies where the platform requires user authentication, on the voluntary request of the user and for the minimum necessary data, regardless of whether strong authentication is legally or contractually required.
Before a relying party can request wallet data, it must register with the national authority of its Member State of establishment under CIR (EU) 2025/848. Registration specifies, per intended use, which attributes and attestations the relying party will request. The wallet checks each request against this registered scope.
- 20 May 2024: Revised eIDAS regulation entered into force
- End of 2024: First five core implementing acts adopted, including technical specifications, security standards, and interoperability rules; 24-month period started
- 6 May 2025: CIR (EU) 2025/848 on relying party registration adopted
- 2025: Second wave of implementing acts published, covering qualified trust services, validation, and archiving; second pilot wave (WE BUILD, APTITUDE) launched
- 2023 to 2025: Large Scale Pilots tested driving licence, passport, and other credential use cases across 26 Member States and partner countries
- 24 December 2026: Legal deadline by which Member States must have at least one certified EUDI Wallet available; public authorities required to accept notified wallets for online services requiring electronic identification
- 24 December 2027: Acceptance obligation under Article 5f takes effect for regulated private sector organisations where strong authentication is legally or contractually required, and for VLOPs on voluntary user request
For organisations in regulated sectors such as financial services, government, and healthcare, these deadlines are not distant horizons. Preparing systems to accept and process wallet-based attestations takes time, and starting that preparation early makes the transition more manageable.
How the ID Connector supports EUDI Wallet acceptance
Accepting EUDI Wallet credentials for digital driving licences, passport-based travel credentials, and other eIDAS 2.0 attestations requires concrete technical steps: updating identity verification flows, connecting to trusted issuers, and ensuring your systems can validate attestations in a legally compliant way.
The ID Connector is an integration that lets relying parties accept every certified European wallet, whatever Member State issued it, for identification, login and qualified signing. EUDI Wallet acceptance comes first; the same interface also carries other IDs, such as national eIDs, bank IDs and identity documents, inside and outside the EU.
In the context of driving licences and travel credentials, the ID Connector handles the checks that matter: verifying issuer signatures against national trusted lists that form part of the EU List of Trusted Lists (LOTL), checking revocation status, and validating wallet unit attestations to confirm the presenting wallet runs on a certified wallet solution. It also monitors the registered attribute scope under CIR (EU) 2025/848, so that each data request stays within what the relying party has registered for its intended use.
For organisations in financial services, healthcare, pharma, and government, these capabilities are directly relevant to meeting the 24 December 2026 and 24 December 2027 deadlines. Explore TrustTech’s digital identity solutions or find out how TrustTech works. To discuss what EUDI Wallet acceptance looks like for your organisation, get in touch with TrustTech.