A quiet revolution in how professionals prove their qualifications is arriving on a fixed deadline. Under eIDAS 2 (Regulation EU 2024/1183), every EU member state must provide citizens and residents with a European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet by the end of 2026, and businesses must accept it by the end of 2027. For anyone whose career depends on proving a diploma or a licence across borders, this changes the game.
What the EUDI Wallet is
The EUDI Wallet is a mobile app that lets you store government-verified credentials — national ID, driving licence, diplomas, professional qualifications — and share them selectively with services that request them, under your exclusive control. Instead of re-submitting notarised documents every time, you present a cryptographically verifiable credential in seconds.
What changes for a regulated professional
Today, proving your qualification abroad means couriering documents, apostilles and sworn translations, and waiting for each recipient to verify them. With the wallet:
- Your qualification is a government-assured, instantly verifiable credential.
- You decide exactly what to share and with whom (selective disclosure).
- A hospital, regulator or employer confirms it without a fresh manual check.
This is the strongest possible authenticity signal on a credential: a digital seal that can be validated cryptographically, not a PDF that could be edited. The same principle behind verifiable credentials.
Check in minutes whether you can practice in your destination country.
How it fits with the European Professional Card
The wallet is not the same as the European Professional Card (EPC), the recognition mechanism run through regulators and professional bodies — covered in the EPC and eIDAS 2 for regulators. Think of the EPC as the recognition rail and the EUDI Wallet as the presentation rail: the wallet is how a recognised qualification travels with the professional and is proven on demand.
Why verification still matters
The wallet proves a credential is authentically issued and cryptographically intact — it does not, by itself, decide whether a foreign qualification is equivalent for practising a regulated profession in a given country. That judgement stays with the receiving regulator. And credentials from outside the EU still need verifying at the source before they can be trusted.
Booka works on both rails: it validates eIDAS seals via the European Commission's DSS framework — the strongest authenticity signal on a digitally signed document — and its Trust Agent anchors identity and verifies credentials for the cases the wallet doesn't yet cover. The regulatory effect of any qualification depends on the receiving country.
Conclusion
eIDAS 2 turns a professional qualification from a folder of documents into an instantly verifiable digital credential — on a 2026 deadline. Professionals who understand the wallet, and organisations that prepare to accept it, will move faster than those still couriering apostilles.