1. Why eIDAS? eID under eIDAS compliance
Alice Vasilescu, European Commission
, JenV informatiemarkt, Den Haag

2. Agenda 1 Benefits of eIDAS eID 2 What is the status in Europe 3
What is the status in The Netherlands 4
What is the status in The Netherlands

3. Benefits of eIDAS

4. Europe has worked hard to make physical borders transparent…
Europe Union stands for freedom, freedom for citizens and their right to move and reside freely within the Union.
Therefore a lot of work has done in removing the physical borders. And yet, in the digital world we still encounter some barriers.
… but digital borders still exist.

5. eIDAS
for Citizens
One obstacle that the European Union is working on is for example the access of citizens to online services wherever they are in Europe in a secure, cost efficienct and user friendly way.
Access online services in any Member State with their national eID with required security, ease of use, and cost efficient

6. What does this mean concretely
What does this mean concretely? Let's have a look at the story of Karen and Francois.

7. The eID ecosystem
NODE OPERATORS
SERVICE PROVIDERS
Member
States
IDENTITY/ATTRIBUTE PROVIDERS
CITIZENS
Before going into the benefits, it is important to have a high level picture of the ecosystem.
Here you can notice that besides the usual IDPs SPs and User we have the MS, because it is about a service delivered by the MS for the MS and their citizens.
Cross border authentication mutual recognition

8. eIDAS Interoperability Architecture
Member State A
Relying Party
Member State B
eIDAS-Node
eIDAS-Node
Citizen Member State B 3
Proxy-Service
SAML
Proxy-Service 1 2 4
Connector
Identity Provider
Connector
Without going into technical details, this is a high level picture of how the technical solution looks like.
What it means? Each MS has to deploy a node and connect their services to them so that citizens can access them and have cross-border transactions. 6 5
Service Provider
MDS

9. The Tallin Declaration, October 6, 2017
Why should we consider eIDAS?
The EU has strongly endorsed it and vote to:
Speed up the implementation of the eIDAS regulation, including the notification of electronic identity schemes
Making digital public services secure and identifiable by using the eIDAS framework for qualified electronic trust services
© Arno Mikkor / EU2017EE
The Tallin Declaration, October 6, 2017
EU to implement electronic ID for residents to accelarate adoption of e-government services

10. The benefits of eIDAS eID
User centric
SECURE CROSS- BORDER AUTHENTICATION
What are the key features of eIDAS eID service ?
0. It has a legal framework , delivered by MS for the MS
It is about a secure cross-border authentication service
It is designed to be user centric – to make citizens life easier and more secure
It is flexible because it is designed to work in different domains (it is not domain specific)
It has a governance under the eIDAS Regulation (Cooperation Network) and also under Connecting Europe Facility
And it can generate cost saving – reuse of existing solutions and potential CEF funding.
Flexible
Cost saving
CEF Governance and operations

11. The benefits of CEF eID for different actors
Cross-border
online services
Ease of use
Cost saving
Increased assurance
Citizen
Use eID
Public administration
Cost saving
Compliance
Increased assurance
Financial support
National eIDAS
Node
Set up
New areas of application
Increase value for users
Drive national adoption
Identity/Attribute providers
What are the key messages?
eIDAS eID helps European project to have a cross border solution for authentication and removes some of the digital barriers – access to online services
Each actor from the eID ecosystem has benefits, from the citizen (as mentioned before) to the IDPs and SPs. You can see them in slides.
While we talk about cross-border transactions (perhaps 10% of all online ones) , we must not forget that all these activities push the national solutions to increase their security, user experience and overall their quality.
As a result  Drive national adoption and increase user value.
Provide identity/attributes
Cost saving
Legal compliance
Increased security/assurance
Increase potential user base
Financial support
Service providers
Offer services using eID

12. What is the status What is the status in Member States?

13. EU MS and associated countries implementing an eIDAS-Node
Pictures speak for themselves. Most MS implementing and testing
EU MS and associated countries implementing an eIDAS-Node
EU MS and associated countries with nationally- issued eID schemes
Currently setting up
74%
Planning stage
26%
Currently with
90%
Currently setting up
10%
* Please note that these maps reflect information published on the CEF Digital country page, based on information publically available (eg. INEA grants, governmental websites) and updates provided by the Member States experts of the Cooperation Network.

14. eID schemes notified Germany
20 February 2017: first pre- notification
26 September 2017: official notification
A milestone towards establishing eID and trust services in Europe achieved!
Germany
National ID card
registered users
…. and 2 more countries are intending to pre-notify their schemes by the end of !
The only thing missing is the notification. So far we have DE that has completed the notification process.

15. Other encouraging achievementsDE
In December 2016, The Netherlands, Austria and Germany have managed to connect their identification and authentication systems via their (technically compliant) eIDAS nodes in production AT NL
Other great achievements.
By November 2017, ten countries have used the CEF eID testing service, a service provided by the European Commission's Directorate General for Informatics (DIGIT). AT HR NL SK EE IT NO ES MT PL

16. Status in the Netherlands

17. eIDAS in the Netherlands
Current State of Play
16 November 2017

18. Dutch government initiatives
Connecting Dutch governmental service providers to NL-PEPS / eIDAS node
2015-NL-IA-0078
December 2017
Testing and piloting the NL eID ecosystem, including connection to the Municipal Personal Records Database
2017-NL-IA-0014
September 2018
Dutch government initiatives
The Action's objective is to connect Dutch governmental service providers (CIBG Agency, Dutch ministry of Security and Justice, RVO) to the NL- eIDAS node by eRecognition brokers, as a prelude to the connection through the Dutch framework for Electronic Access Services (EAS). To reach this objective, this action will:
• Create an interface in cooperation between the Identity Providers (IDP) brokers (KPN, Digidentity and Connectis), the governmental service providers and the owner of the NL-eIDAS node, which will prove the technical and operational ability to grant access to citizens and businesses from other EU member states to services of Dutch governmental service providers, using their own national eID method.
The interface is composed of 3 components:
- The eIDAS node – broker interface (the eIDAS message service);
- An eIDAS / EAS compatible broker;
- A Broker – Service Provider interface;
- Connect 3 government service providers.
The Action will support the Netherlands in meeting the requirements of the eIDAS Regulation and will facilitate access to Dutch public e-services for all EU citizens and businesses using their national eID, and thus ensure cross-border mobility and support and strengthen the Single Market. This Action will also allow government service providers and brokers to acquire knowledge and experience on how to connect to the NL-eIDAS node, facilitating further adaptations and reducing the costs.

19. Justice Federation Broker
Citizens & companies
Justice
Ministries

20. Q&A
Thank you for your attention

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