The EU-funded EU4Digital program recently announced that Armenia, Georgia and Moldova had successfully tested connecting to foreign electronic services using their national electronic IDs (eIDs) as part of EU4Digital’s cross-border electronic identification (eID) pilot activities between the Eastern Partner countries, IPN reports, quoting a press release.
The pilot project aims to ensure the public agencies in the three countries achieve cross-border electronic authentication from the standpoint of technical compatibility.
The software – called an eIDAS-Node – currently enables European Union Member States to communicate with their counterparts in a centralized or distributed fashion for cross-border authentication. The EU’s updated EUDI regulation, previously known as the eIDAS regulation, facilitates secure cross-border transactions and aims to promote seamless digital services within the EU.
The European source noted that the e-Signature pilot project was launched in April 2020, with two Eastern partner countries – Moldova and Ukraine – and one EU country - Estonia. Since then, according to the e-Government Agency, more than 2 million electronic signatures are applied monthly in Moldova. Statistics show that electronic signatures, such as USB Token, were used more than 8 million times in the first half of 2020 and more than 10 million times in the first half of 2021; the mobile signature - 1,212,871 times and, respectively, 1,556,673, and the one obtained through the electronic identity card (national ID) - 35,908 times and 34,870 times, respectively.
