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, residents and businesses by the end of December 2026. With a little over eight months to go, the picture is uneven. A handful of countries have live or publicly testable wallet environments, a broader group is upgrading existing national eID apps, and a smaller group is still at the legal, developer-materials, or closed-pilot stage.

This article is the snapshot as of 27 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 four readiness tiers

Tier 1 — Live wallet or public sandbox

These countries expose either a production wallet-like service to end users or an official sandbox/test-access environment that external teams can engage with today. The capabilities are not identical, and not every live national wallet is already a fully certified EUDI Wallet.

• Denmark — AltID. The Danish Agency for Digital Government has opened early test access and a test tool for receiver flows, with the citizen app planned for spring 2026.
• France — France Identité / EUDIW Unfold. France has a public playground and OpenID4VP verifier demos, while the current France Identité app remains distinct from the full Article 5a EUDI Wallet.
• Germany — State EUDI Wallet. The official sandbox is live for organisations using test data and is the clearest route for verifier-side integration work in Germany.
• Italy — Sistema IT-Wallet in the IO app. This was incorrectly treated as a developer-resources-only project before. Italy's first IT-Wallet release has been available to citizens since 4 December 2024, with millions of digital documents activated; EUDI interoperability and certification work still continues.

Germany, France and Denmark are the strongest starting points for public sandbox work. Italy is different: it is already a live national wallet track, but not yet a general-purpose public EUDI verifier sandbox.

Tier 2 — Existing app with visible EUDI path

These countries already have a national eID or wallet app in production, and the public record shows an EUDI upgrade path, EUDI alignment work, or a credible government programme. The user-facing app exists; the level of public detail on EUDI certification and external sandbox access varies.

• Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain

Important correction: Cyprus, Hungary and Portugal should not be described as having "no confirmed project". Cyprus has Digital Citizen, Hungary has the DAP digital wallet/eID programme, and Portugal has gov.pt / id.gov.pt. Their EUDI upgrade details are less public than, for example, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Poland or Spain, but they are not blank-slate countries.

Tier 3 — Announced, no public sandbox yet

A national project exists, but there is no generally available sandbox that external developers can use today. Testing may be closed, by invitation, or focused on public-sector partners.

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

Ireland belongs in this tier, not Tier 1. The Irish Government opened consultation and registration of interest in April 2026, and participants may be invited to early access, but that is not the same as a public developer sandbox.

Tier 4 — Developer or legal materials only

Some documentation, legal materials, pilot reports, specs, or reference repositories are public, but there is no general public sandbox or production wallet track comparable to Tier 1.

• Bulgaria, Finland, Netherlands

Bulgaria is mainly at the legislative/developer-materials stage. Finland has strong pilot history and public documentation, but no general national sandbox. The Netherlands has visible technical work but has also signalled that the first release may be limited, so merchants should treat it as a schedule-risk country until public testing becomes clearer.

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 the public beta is useful to watch for wallet-interoperability patterns.
• Moldova is scheduled to feature an EUDI Interoperability Arena at Moldova Digital Summit 2026, where participants can test wallet interoperability — an unusually concrete move for a candidate country.
• Ukraine, Norway and Iceland participated in EU 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 — The Commission announced that the EU age verification app is technically ready and will soon be available for citizens to use. It is better described as a standalone age-verification solution built on the EUDI Wallet framework, not as the full wallet itself; the Commission did not give a bloc-wide deployment date. The announcement was followed 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.

3 April 2026 — ENISA announced the public consultation on the draft EUDI Wallet Cybersecurity Certification Scheme (v0.4.614), with the review open until 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 public verifier tooling; Denmark now offers early test access; Italy is useful for understanding a live national wallet rollout, even if verifier access is a different question. Our OpenEUDI SDK quickstart walks through the full flow against a demo wallet and is a close match to how the public 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 4 as end-of-year risk. If your target market includes Ireland, Bulgaria, Finland or the Netherlands, 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 4 countries may ship minimum-viable wallets or limited pilots to satisfy the letter of the regulation with constrained 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 27 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.