eIDAS compliant eID Solutions

This report provides an overview of the legislative framework under eIDAS for electronic identification, presents the landscape of notified and pre-notified eID schemes and identifies key trends in the electronic identification field. Moreover, it discusses preliminary security considerations and recommendations related to the underlying technologies used for eID means and makes a proposal on the role that ENISA could play in the eIDAS compliant eID ecosystem. Since Germany notified in September 2017 the first European eID scheme under the eIDAS Regulation, an increasing number of countries have started an eID scheme notification process. Other schemes are pre-notified and more will undoubtedly follow, thus demonstrating the success of eID across the European Union.