Notified electronic identification scheme

An eID scheme a Member State notified to the Commission: what Article 9 requires, how peer review works and why public bodies abroad must accept it.

An electronic identification scheme that a Member State has formally notified to the European Commission, after which it appears on a list the Commission publishes. Notification is the hinge of cross-border recognition in eIDAS: without it a national login means stops at the border, with it other Member States have to accept it.

What a Member State hands in is described in Article 9: a description of the scheme including its assurance levels and the issuers of the means, the applicable supervisory regime and the liability regime for both the issuer and the party that operates the authentication, the responsible authorities, and which entity manages the registration of the unique person identification data. Before that, Article 7 sets out which schemes are eligible at all, and other Member States get to look at the scheme through the peer review the Commission's implementing rules organise.

The obligation that follows is concrete. Under Article 6, a public sector body in another Member State that requires electronic identification at assurance level substantial or high must recognise a notified means at an equal or higher level, no later than twelve months after the Commission publishes the list. Level low may be recognised but does not have to be. That is why DigiD and eHerkenning can be used at a foreign government service, and why the EUDI Wallet is provided under a notified scheme as well: wallet certification covers the wallet and the scheme it is issued under.