Leading MEP proposes changes on privacy, access, interoperability for European digital wallet

 
The European Parliament’s rapporteur put forth a number of proposals to improve the European Digital Identity Wallet as part of the new eIDAS Regulation, focusing on interoperability, data privacy and equal access. 

In June 2021, the European Commission proposed a regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions (eIDAS) with the intention of harmonising digital identification across the EU. By 2023, every member state must make a Digital Identity Wallet (EDIW) available to citizens and businesses. 

The file was then the object of a lengthy competency dispute between the committees of the European Parliament, which resulted in a complex arrangement with the industry committee (ITRE) in the lead, and the committees for consumer protection (IMCO) and civil liberties with some exclusive competences (LIBE). (...)