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The digital EU power of attorney, explained from the instrument

Directive (EU) 2025/25 creates a digital power of attorney and a company certificate that work across all 27 Member States, with no apostilles and no translation rounds. This handbook explains what the law actually says, article by article, with every claim cited to the text it comes from. Where something is unknown, we say so.

There are plenty of sites explaining the EUDI wallet in general. This is not one of them. EUDIPOA covers one thing in depth: how organisations authorise people, and increasingly systems, to act for them under the new EU rules [Directive (EU) 2025/25, Art. 2] [Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 (eIDAS 2)], and what companies, notaries, registers and relying parties have to do about it.

Where the law stands

10 Jan 2025Directive (EU) 2025/25 published in the Official Journal
30 Jan 2025Entry into force (Art. 5)
by 31 Jul 2026Commission implementing acts due, including the power of attorney template (Art. 24(2))
24 Dec 2026Member State EUDI wallets due; wallet-relying-party registration applies
by 31 Jul 2027Member States adopt and publish transposing measures (Art. 4(1))
from 31 Jul 2028Member States apply the measures — the instrument becomes usable (Art. 4(2))

Every date above comes from the instruments, not from commentary — the full chains are on the Directive 2025/25 page and the wallet mapping.

The handbook

Start hereThe digital EU power of attorney

What it is, who it is for, and where the rules stand today.

For companiesWhat to do, by when

The plain timeline: what is actually obliged, what is merely smart, and what you can safely ignore.

Plain answersYour question, answered simply

Apostilles, deadlines, costs, acceptance — the questions people actually ask, answered from the law.

The instrumentDirective (EU) 2025/25, taken apart

The inserted Articles 16b–16g and every date that matters.

MisconceptionsWhat it is not

Ten misreadings to clear up before you build, advise or buy anything.

The other instrumentThe EU Company Certificate

Register-grade proof of what a company is — accepted in all Member States, apostille-free.

Who may actOrganisational mandates

Who may act for a company, what relying parties must do, and notes from building on these rules.

eIDAS 2The eIDAS 2 layer

Wallets, attestations of attributes, relying-party registration, and the Business Wallet proposal, labelled as one.

Country by countryTransposition, all 27 Member States

Notified measures tracked weekly; no row is marked verified until we have read that country's gazette.

Deadline explorerWhat happens when

Filter each binding date by the organisation responsible. Proposed dates are kept out.

Proposal trackerEU Inc. and the digital EU power of attorney

How COM(2026) 321 would reuse the certificate and power-of-attorney framework.

By roleWhat your team needs to prepare

Specific guides for company secretaries, law firms, notaries, banks and identity providers.

Latest updates

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How this site earns trust

Every explainer carries a byline, a published date, a last-verified date, the exact sources it was verified against (with retrieval dates), and a changelog. Claims are labelled Law, Proposal, Technical draft, Implementation note or Commentary, because a Commission policy page is not law and should never read as if it were. The method is public: Methodology. The mistakes are too: Corrections.