Digital Identity, Real World Impact: The Industrial Upside of the European Business Wallet (EBW)

The European Business Wallet (EBW) is emerging as the core trust and automation layer for Europe’s digital economy, providing a harmonised, verifiable legal-entity identity for secure B2B and B2G interactions. By extending eIDAS 2.0 to organisations and introducing the European Unique Identifier (EUID), the EBW enables automated compliance, trusted supply-chain operations, cross-border interoperability and secure communication through QERDS. It underpins Digital Product Passports, Industry 4.0, data spaces and Trusted Industrial AI—reducing fraud, streamlining onboarding, and enabling document-free processes across the Single Market. Validated in the WE BUILD Large-Scale Pilot, the EBW represents a major economic and security upgrade for European industry.

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