What the European Business Wallet would mean for public administrations
The core obligation
Article 16 would require public sector bodies, within 24 months of the Regulation entering into force, to let economic operators use a European Business Wallet to identify and authenticate, sign or seal, submit documents, and send or receive notifications, for the purpose of a reporting obligation or an administrative procedure. [1]
Running your own Wallet
To offer that, Article 16 says a public sector body would itself need a European Business Wallet, including the qualified electronic registered delivery service used for document submission and notifications. A body could instead keep an existing equivalent channel for a transition period, provided that channel meets the same requirements as a qualified electronic registered delivery service under the eIDAS Regulation and gateways into the Wallet channel; after that period it would need the Wallet-based service like everyone else. [1]
A role in issuing identity data, too
Article 8 lets a public sector body responsible for an authentic source, such as a business register, issue Wallet owner identification data itself, alongside qualified trust service providers and, for Union entities, the Commission. [1]
Supervision
Where a national or regional public sector body itself provides Wallets, Article 13 puts it under the same national supervisory body already designated for eIDAS trust services. Where a Union entity provides Wallets, Article 15 makes the Commission its supervisory body. [1]