Trust Service Providers
Trust Service Providers play a central role in the EU digital trust framework. They issue and manage legally relevant trust services such as qualified electronic signatures, electronic seals, certificates, and time-stamps, which are increasingly used in regulated onboarding, identification, and documentation processes. For AML, KYC, and audit purposes, it is essential to verify whether a trust service provider and its services are formally recognised as qualified under EU law.
Overview of the Trust Service Providers Table
The table on this page provides a country-by-country reference to the official verification infrastructure for Trust Service Providers in the European Union and the European Economic Area.
For each jurisdiction, the table identifies:
- The relevant access point to the EU Trusted List Browser, and
- The corresponding national Trusted List published by the competent authority.
The table does not list individual Trust Service Providers directly. Instead, it establishes where and how qualified providers and services must be verified. This reflects the legal structure of the eIDAS / EUDI framework, under which recognition of a Trust Service Provider depends exclusively on its inclusion in a national Trusted List.
National Trusted Lists contain:
- Qualified Trust Service Providers (QTSPs),
- The specific qualified trust services they are authorised to provide,
- The current legal status of those services.
The table therefore functions as a navigation and verification tool, ensuring that users rely on authoritative and up-to-date sources rather than static or unofficial provider lists.
List of Trusted Lists (LOTL)
To enable cross-border use and verification of trust services, the European Commission publishes the List of Trusted Lists (LOTL).
The LOTL:
- Is the EU-level index of all national Trusted Lists,
- Acts as a single trust anchor for qualified trust services across the EU and EEA,
- Is maintained and published by the European Commission under the DIGITAL programme.
The LOTL does not replace national Trusted Lists and does not contain trust service provider data itself. Instead, it:
- References the official Trusted List of each Member State,
- Ensures integrity, authenticity, and currency of those lists,
- Enables automated and manual validation of trust services across borders.
Through the Trusted List Browser, users can:
- Search for Trust Service Providers by name,
- Search by type of trust service (e.g. qualified certificates, time-stamping),
- Verify trust services by analysing a signed file and identifying the issuing certificate.
For compliance and AML purposes, the LOTL ensures that trust services used in digital processes can be verified consistently and reliably across jurisdictions.
https://eidas.ec.europa.eu/efda/trust-services/browse/eidas/tls