European Parliament votes to form final law on EU digital wallet

European lawmakers are moving guardant with the instauration of a European Union-wide integer wallet by passing a plenary ballot connected moving the inaugural to interinstitutional negotiations.

The European Parliament connected March 15 voted successful favour of negotiating a mandate for talks with the EU subordinate states connected the revision of the caller European Digital Identity (eID) framework, according to an authoritative announcement. The plenary ballot resulted successful 418 votes successful favour and 103 votes against the initiative, with 24 parliament members abstaining from the vote.

Following the plenary’s endorsement, the EU assembly is present acceptable to commencement the discussions connected the last signifier of the authorities immediately, the lawmakers said. Parliament’s presumption during the negotiations volition beryllium based connected the amendments adopted successful the Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) successful February, the announcement notes.

As antecedently reported, ITRE included the standard of zero-knowledge proofs successful its eID amendments, intending to let EU citizens to afloat power their individuality data.

“The strategy would let citizens to place and authenticate themselves online — via a European integer individuality wallet — without having to edifice to commercialized providers, arsenic is the lawsuit contiguous — a signifier that has raised trust, information and privateness concerns,” the European Parliament said.

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Introduced successful June 2021, the eID legislative connection aims to make a “European Digital Identity” and a dedicated integer wallet for citizens and businesses successful the EU. The “European Digital Identity Wallet,” besides known arsenic EDIW, aims to let radical and companies successful the EU to store individuality information similar sanction and code arsenic good arsenic digitized documents, including information connected slope accounts, commencement certificates, diplomas and different documents for cross-border use.