Article 2 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/846

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Article 2General requirements#

1.Where a public sector body acts as a relying party in the context of an online cross-border service offered by or on behalf of that public sector body, Member States shall ensure that the process set out in paragraph 2 is used to ensure unequivocal identity matching of natural persons.

2.Unequivocal identity matching shall be done by, or on behalf of, the relying party, or a register relied upon by relying parties, or a centralised system, by requesting, as applicable, receiving, and validating the authenticity of the information listed in paragraphs 3 or 4.

3.When reliance is on a wallet, the information to be used for unequivocal identity matching shall be the mandatory person identification data set out in Section 1 of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2977, together with any optional data that is needed to ensure that the presented dataset is unique including, where appropriate, additional information or complementary procedures.

4.When reliance is on a notified electronic identification scheme, the information to be used for unequivocal identity matching shall be the mandatory attributes of the minimum data set for a natural person set out in Section 1 of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1501 including, where appropriate, any additional information or complementary procedures.

5.When determining whether there is an unequivocal identity match, the relying party, or the party acting on its behalf, shall match the information provided by the user to those the relying party or a party acting on its behalf or a register relied upon by relying parties that has already registered.

6.The outcome of the process described in paragraph 5 shall, to the extent possible, not be affected by differences in transliteration, blank spaces, hyphenation, concatenation, and similar orthographic variations that are required under Union law or national law of the Member State.

7.Where the match is exact for the information referred to in paragraph 2 and relates to only one natural person or the outcome of the process leads to a new registration of the user that is equivalent in its function to a successful identity matching process, the identity matching process shall be deemed successful resulting in an unequivocal identity match. Where the match is not exact or relates to more than one natural person, or the party performing the identity matching cannot guarantee that the match is unequivocal, the identity matching process shall be deemed unsuccessful.

8.Member States may rely on centralised identity matching systems, operated by a public sector body established in that Member State, to ensure that notified electronic identification means or wallets from another Member State can be matched with existing registrations and records using online procedures.

9.Where Member States enable wallet-relying parties which are not public sector bodies to perform identity matching the mechanisms and procedures laid down in this Regulation shall apply, where applicable.