EUDI Wallet Rollout Status by Member State — April 2026

The December 2026 deadline is closer than it looks

Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 — the amended eIDAS framework that most people now simply call eIDAS 2 — every EU member state must make at least one compliant EU Digital Identity Wallet available to its citizens and residents by the end of December 2026. With a little over eight months to go, the picture is uneven. A handful of countries have live public sandboxes, a broader group has confirmed upgrade paths from existing national eID apps, and a small tail still has no confirmed project.

This article is the snapshot as of 18 April 2026. We update it monthly. If you are a merchant planning to add EUDI Wallet verification to your checkout, or a developer deciding which country's pilot to integrate first, this is the practical view you need.

The five readiness tiers

Tier 1 — Public sandbox live

These countries expose a working wallet to developers or end users today. You can test real presentation flows, usually against a staging verifier.

• Denmark — AltID. Opened a public developer sandbox in April 2026.
• France — France Identité. The most mature production-adjacent deployment.
• Germany — State EUDI Wallet. Sandbox expanded in early 2026 with multiple use-case modules.
• Ireland — Government Digital Wallet. Announced early public access to a test wallet in April 2026, putting Ireland firmly on track for the EUDIW deadline.

Denmark and Ireland are the newest arrivals in this tier. Both opened access inside April 2026, which substantially broadens the pool of real wallets you can target in early integration work.

Tier 2 — Existing app with a confirmed upgrade path

These countries already have a national eID app in production and have publicly committed to upgrading it to full EUDIW compliance. The user-facing app exists; the eIDAS 2 functionality is being added.

• Austria, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia, Spain

Merchants can reasonably plan for wallet availability in all of these by end-2026. The integration specifics may shift between now and then, which is why we track them month by month.

Tier 3 — Announced, no public sandbox yet

A national project exists but there is nothing external developers can touch.

• Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden

Tier 4 — Public developer resources, no sandbox

Some documentation, specs, or reference repositories are published, but there is no working client for end users.

• Bulgaria, Finland, Italy, Netherlands

These four were added to this tier during Q1 2026 after publishing developer materials, even though their end-user wallets are not yet testable.

Tier 5 — No confirmed upgrade

• Cyprus, Hungary, Portugal

This does not mean these countries will miss the deadline. It means that as of April 2026, no public project announcement has set a concrete national path. Expect movement in the next two quarters.

Beyond the EU-27

Three non-EU observations worth tracking:

• Switzerland launched a public beta of its swiyu infrastructure. Swiss identity sits outside eIDAS, but interoperability is actively being negotiated.
• Moldova hosted a Digital Summit in April 2026 featuring live wallet testing exercises — an unusually early move for a candidate country.
• Ukraine and Norway participated in the EU's Large Scale Pilots alongside 26 member states and are expected to align technically even though their legal status differs.

What changed in April 2026

Three headline events shaped the month.

15 April 2026 — Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU's age verification "mini-wallet" — a privacy-preserving subset of the full EUDI Wallet — is technically ready and will arrive on European smartphones by summer. The announcement was followed within 24 hours by a widely reported security researcher disclosure that raised the right technical questions about local device security, though headlines overstated the severity.

8 April 2026 — The Commission published Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/798, covering wallet enrolment under Article 5a(24) of the amended eIDAS framework. It lays down the rules for combining Level of Assurance "substantial" with additional remote procedures to reach LoA "high". If you care about who can enrol in a wallet and how, see our explainer on IR 2026/798.

2 April 2026 — ENISA published the draft EUDI Wallet Cybersecurity Certification Scheme (v0.4.614) and opened a public consultation closing 30 April 2026. Member states must provide at least one certified wallet by the end of 2026, so the final scheme directly affects which national wallets will be considered production-ready at launch. See our ENISA certification scheme explainer for what verifiers should read into the draft.

Reading the tiers as a merchant

If you want to ship EUDI Wallet verification into your product this year, here is the practical order of operations.

Start with Tier 1 for integration. Germany and France have the deepest tooling; Ireland and Denmark now offer usable staging environments. Our OpenEUDI SDK quickstart walks through the full flow against a demo wallet and is a close match to how the Tier 1 sandboxes behave.

Plan for Tier 2 to come online through the back half of 2026. Expect Spain, Belgium, and Austria in particular to move fast given existing national eID penetration.

Treat Tier 3 and 5 as end-of-year risk. If your target market includes Cyprus, Hungary, or Portugal, monitor national announcements and have a fallback to traditional KYC ready — see our analysis of EUDI Wallet versus traditional KYC for that comparison.

Cross-border verification is where EUDI Wallet pays off. Pan-European acceptance is the whole point of eIDAS 2. If you sell into multiple countries today and handle per-country KYC logic, see Cross-border verification for European sellers for the architectural shift.

What about the "will it really be ready by December 2026" debate

Industry press in late 2025 and early 2026 has raised legitimate doubts that every member state will hit a clean December 2026 launch. Signicat, Namirial, and Biometric Update have all published sceptical pieces. Our read of the evidence is that the rollout will be staggered: most Tier 1 and Tier 2 countries will meet the spirit of the deadline with publicly usable wallets, while Tier 3 and Tier 5 countries will likely ship minimum-viable wallets to satisfy the letter of the regulation with limited real-world coverage at launch.

This is not a crisis. It mirrors how every other large EU digital infrastructure rollout has played out. It does mean you should not build a merchant integration that assumes uniform wallet coverage across all 27 countries on day one.

How eIDAS Pro keeps up

The complexity here is not picking one country. It is handling 27 slightly different wallets, each with slightly different metadata, and a moving timeline. That is what the eIDAS Pro managed service exists to do. We track every national rollout, abstract the differences behind a single verification API, and ship the country-specific compliance mapping so your checkout stays correct as each wallet launches.

If you want to understand how the verifier role actually works under eIDAS 2, see our Relying Party registration guide and What is WRPAC and why every business needs one by December 2026.

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Updated 18 April 2026. Next update: mid-May 2026. For a managed verifier that tracks every national rollout so you do not have to, see eIDAS Pro's managed plans.