Here’s how EUDI2 supports AI-agents in practice:
1. Trusted Identity Layer
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AI-agents cannot enter into contracts or access sensitive data without credentials.
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EUDI2 establishes a legal and technical trust framework (qualified signatures, seals, mandates, and trust registries).
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This lets AI-agents act on behalf of natural persons or organisations with verifiable delegation, not just “pretend.”
2. Mandates & Representation Credentials
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EUDI wallets carry representation and delegation credentials: “X is authorised to act on behalf of Y.”
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An AI-agent can then be bound by the same mandate — enabling automated contract signing, filing, or procurement tasks.
3. Interoperability & Standardisation
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By harmonising wallet standards across all Member States, EUDI2 guarantees cross-border trust.
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AI-agents can operate seamlessly in the EU Single Market, not siloed by national solutions.
4. Legally Binding Transactions
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EUDI2 anchors qualified electronic signatures and seals in wallets.
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An AI-agent can generate these on behalf of its user or organisation — making its automated actions enforceable under EU law.
5. Data Minimisation & Selective Disclosure
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AI-agents need granular access to data, not “all or nothing.”
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EUDI2 mandates verifiable credentials with selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs, letting AI-agents fetch just the data they need (age, professional license, company mandate, etc.).
6. Trust Registries & Governance
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AI-agents must know which service providers and verifiers are trustworthy.
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EUDI2 foresees EU-wide trust registries to resolve who is a qualified trust service provider (QTSP), issuer, or verifier.
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This allows AI-agents to make decisions autonomously in a legally safe ecosystem.
7. AI-Agent Synergy
✅ In short:
EUDI2 provides the identity, delegation, trust registry, and legal enforceability layers that AI-agents need to operate safely and productively in the EU. Without this wallet infrastructure, AI-agents remain “smart assistants” but not legally
empowered actors.
