Digital travel documents have the potential to make travelling much easier and smoother for EU citizens. The European Commission currently envisages different regulatory options to develop digital travel documents (link to the consultation). Eurosmart would favour a legislative act that lays down an obligation for...
Eurosmart confirms overall resilience of Secure Elements’ market Press releaseDownload Disclaimer Despite the pandemic and ongoing chip shortage, the latest Eurosmart market analysis confirms an overall resilient market in 2021. During H1 2022, Eurosmart also confirms continued resilience driven by renewed demand in eSIM, contactless payment cards, and governmental...
Eurosmart welcomes the Commission's proposal to update Regulation 1025/2012 to ensure that National Standardisation Bodies (NSBs) are in the driving seat for European standardisation. If adopted, the legislation will rule that only European NSBs have the decision-making power to handle standardisation requests and prepare harmonised...
Eurosmart welcomes the European Commission's proposal for a regulation on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements (the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)). Download PDF Over the last decade, the European Union has been developing a solid cybersecurity legislative corpus which provides more legal certainty for the...
Sometimes, the security industry must make a critical balancing act between market realities and security. Chip-based documents are a prime example of this fact. Identity cards, passports and other documents usually have a long lifetime, typically ten years. That’s the reality of the identity document...
On June 8th 2022, in San Francisco, Eurosmart received a certification award for the Protection Profile Certificate PP-0117 delivered by the German Federal Cybersecurity Authority (BSI). During a ceremony organized by TeleTrusT (IT Security Association) at the German Consulate General, BSI President Mr Schönbohm handed...
Eurosmart’s feedback As underlined by President von der Leyen's State of the Union 2021 address, the EU should become a worldwide leader in terms of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is of utmost importance for the EU; it is at the same time a matter of European industrial policy,...
They used to be a piece of paper easily torn. They have now the size and the texture of a credit card. Driving licences in Europe have kept evolving for the past decades. Today, the European Commission envisages revising the legislation on driving licences to...
The EU eIDAS expert group working on eIDAS 2.0 published on February 22nd, the European Digital Identity Architecture and Reference Framework (the “ARF”). Eurosmart's members have collectively reviewed this document and provided the EU eIDAS expert group with an exhaustive list of comments (the commenting table is...
