All six registers the EU identity wallet runs on are still being prepared.
Member States notify the Commission, the Commission compiles and publishes. Every one of the six pages where those lists are meant to appear says the first one is in preparation.
The brief
You are a Belgian firm that will have to accept the European Digital Identity Wallet. You want to know which Member States will have one, so that you can scope what your systems must talk to and when.
This page does not answer that question. It explains why the question cannot currently be answered from any source worth putting in a board paper, and what to do about that between now and December.
If you are a Member State implementer, or a vendor selling wallet infrastructure, this is not for you: you know your own status, and your problem is the other twenty-six.
The method, and what it excludes
I tested nothing. No wallet was installed, opened or used, and nobody is ranked here.
What I did instead was look for the authoritative list, on the basis that one exists. The regulation builds an ecosystem out of notifications: Member States tell the Commission who the wallet providers are, and the Commission compiles and publishes. That published list is the only artefact that settles the question, because it is the only one with a legal duty attached to it.
Excluded, deliberately: the trade trackers. There are several, they are updated at different cadences, and in the searching done for this piece their published statuses contradicted one another on named countries — including on whether a particular country's wallet was already in production. That is not a criticism of any of them. They are reading press releases, which is all anybody can do while the register is unpublished, and press releases are not notifications.
Also excluded: any count of how many Member States are ready. Every such figure in circulation traces back to the same trackers.
First, the date is arithmetic
Worth settling before anything else, because it is quoted as though it were written down.
Article 5a(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 says each Member State shall provide at least one wallet:
within 24 months of the date of entry into force of the implementing acts referred to in paragraph 23 of this Article and in Article 5c(6)
There is no date in that sentence. There are two sets of implementing acts — the implementation ones under Article 5a(23), which Article 5b(11) required the Commission to adopt by 21 November 2024, and the certification ones under Article 5c(6) — and a period of twenty-four months running from when they entered into force.
The commonly quoted 24 December 2026 is what you get by taking those acts as adopted on 28 November 2024, published on 4 December and in force twenty days later. That chain is consistent across the secondary accounts and I have not walked it through the Official Journal myself, which is why it appears here as a calculation rather than a fact. If your plan turns on the day rather than the quarter, do that arithmetic before you rely on it. If somebody quotes you a different December date, they have counted from a different act.
The six registers, same question each time
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2980 sets up the notification machinery. In the Commission's own words on the Wallet Providers page, Member States must notify it of the wallet providers established in their territory, and it "shall establish, maintain and publish a list compiling the information notified by Member States". The lists follow ETSI TS 119 602.
There are six of them in the Wallet space of the eIDAS Dashboard. I opened all six on 8 October and asked each the same question: is the list there.
Wallet Providers
Who may issue a wallet. Being prepared.
PID Providersperson identification data
Who may onboard a user into one. Being prepared.
WRPAC Providersrelying party access certificates
Who certifies that a wallet asking for your data is genuine. Being prepared.
Registrars and Registers
Where you check that a relying party is registered. Being prepared.
mDL Providersmobile driving licences
Who may issue a driving licence into a wallet. Being prepared.
Pub-EAA Providerspublic attestations
Which public bodies may attest an attribute. Being prepared.
Each page says the same thing: the first compiled list is being prepared from the information notified by the Member States, and when it is published its location will be added to the page. Not one of the six carries a list, a link to one, or a date.
The third and fourth rows are the ones to sit with. WRPAC providers and the registrars are not wallet features; they are how a holder's phone establishes that the thing asking for their identity is allowed to ask. The verification side of the ecosystem is as unpublished as the issuing side.
The verdict, with the situation attached
For the brief at the top — a firm scoping what it must accept — the finding is not that Member States are behind. It may well be that several are close, and the trackers may be broadly right. The finding is that the register against which you would check is not published, which means nothing you can currently cite is checkable, and a project plan built on it has a trade blog as its source of truth.
So: plan for the quarter and not the day. Build the acceptance path against the specification rather than against a list of countries, because the specification exists and the list does not. Treat any statement about a particular Member State's readiness as unverified, including the encouraging ones, and keep a note of where you got it.
And do not let anyone tell you this is a question of your systems being ready in time. Your counterparty for verification is a register with no contents.
What would change this page
The publication of any of the six lists, which each page promises and none dates. That is the single event that turns this from an unanswerable question into a lookup, and it is why the method above spends its effort on one URL rather than twenty-seven.
I will rewrite this when the first one appears. If the Wallet Providers list is published and the registrars list is not, that is also worth knowing, and it is the version of this page I expect to be writing in January.
Written from
Primary The document itself. Claims in this piece rest only on these.
- eIDAS Dashboard, Wallet space: lists of trusted entities — Wallet Providers, PID Providers, WRPAC Providers, Registrars and Registers, mDL Providers, Pub-EAA ProvidersAll six pages opened and read on 8 October 2026. Each carries the same sentence in its own words: the first compiled list is being prepared by the European Commission from the information notified by the Member States, and when it is published its location will be added to the page. None of the six carried a list, a link to one, or a date. The Wallet Providers page is also the source for the notification duty as it states it — Articles 4 and 5 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2980 — and for the list format, ETSI TS 119 602 with the profile in its Annex I. The download button on these pages is the specification, not a list, which is worth saying because an automated check for the word 'download' reads as a published list and is wrong.
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1183, Article 5a(1), consolidated text on EUR-LexRead directly on EUR-Lex rather than through a summary, because the deadline everyone quotes is not in it. Article 5a(1) requires each Member State to provide at least one wallet 'within 24 months of the date of entry into force of the implementing acts referred to in paragraph 23 of this Article and in Article 5c(6)', quoted here in full for that reason. Article 5b(11) is the source for the Commission's own deadline of 21 November 2024 to adopt the implementation acts under Article 5a(23). The 24 December 2026 date is arithmetic on top of those provisions and is presented here as arithmetic.
Reporting Attributed, not relied on. Where the reporting is the fact, it says so.
- The entry-into-force dates of the implementing acts, and therefore the deadline itselfThe chain that produces 24 December 2026 — the implementing acts adopted 28 November 2024, published 4 December 2024, in force twenty days later — was assembled from secondary accounts and not checked against the Official Journal issue by issue for each act. It is consistent across the sources seen and it matches the date in general circulation, and it is still arithmetic this desk has not completed itself. Anyone whose project plan turns on the day rather than the quarter should do that work before relying on it.
- Which Member States have a wallet in productionDeliberately not answered in this piece. The searches done for it returned trade trackers, law-firm notes and vendor blogs whose statuses conflicted on named countries — including on whether a country already in production was in production — and none of them is the register the regulation creates. No wallet was tested, no Member State is ranked, and no count of ready countries appears in the body. This is the exclusion the method section exists to state.