Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
Renaissance is a Paris-based company operating under the commercial name Verifiables. The company designs, develops and operates identity and company verification infrastructure aligned with the European Digital Identity Framework and the European Digital Identity Wallet architecture. Its activities cover natural-person identity verification, legal-person verification (Know Your Business), credential issuance and presentation, and trust-services tooling, with production deployments under partnerships with French government services (France Identité, Annuaire des Entreprises, INPI). Renaissance/Verifiables also publishes open-source software supporting interoperability with European trust infrastructure standards including ETSI Trust Service Lists, ISO/IEC 18013-5 mDoc, SD-JWT-VC, OID4VP and OID4VCI. Geographical scope: European Union, with operational emphasis on France.
EU Legislative Interests
Renaissance/Verifiables contributes technical and policy input on the following EU initiatives in the fields of digital identity, trust services, and verifiable credentials: Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 amending Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 as regards establishing the European Digital Identity Framework, and the implementing and delegated acts adopted thereunder (in particular on the European Digital Identity Wallet, on certification of wallet units, and on protection profiles). Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Business Wallet (COM(2025) 858). Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/848 on relying party registration and access to the European Digital Identity Wallet. Architecture and Reference Framework (ARF) for the European Digital Identity Wallet, including the Person Identification Data (PID) Rulebook and associated technical specifications. ENISA Candidate Certification Scheme for the European Digital Identity Wallet, and accompanying Security and Reliability Requirements documents. Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market for Digital Services (Digital Services Act), in particular Article 28 on the protection of minors online and the related Commission guidelines on age verification. ETSI Technical Specification 119 471 on policy and security requirements for trust service providers issuing electronic attestations of attributes.
Communication Activities
Verifiables (Renaissance's commercial name) contributes to public discourse on European digital identity through technical specifications, open-source publications, and engagement with EU and national institutional consultations: - Open-source contributions to the OpenWallet Foundation Labs projects hosted by the Linux Foundation: oid4vc-ts (OpenID for Verifiable Credentials reference implementation), identity-common-ts (shared identity primitives), mdoc-ts (ISO/IEC 18013-5 mobile document toolkit), and dcql-ts (Digital Credentials Query Language toolkit). These libraries form part of the reference toolchain for ARF-conformant European Digital Identity Wallet implementations and are publicly available at github.com/openwallet-foundation-labs. Verifiables also maintains its own published utility on the npm registry, @verifiables/request-converter. - Technical specifications authored by Renaissance addressing core European Digital Identity Wallet capabilities: a specification on delegated authentication via a Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication to OpenID for Verifiable Presentations bridge; a specification on a verified messaging protocol for legally-effective communication binding messages to credentials; and a specification on company-data monitoring for legal-person credentials drawing on French authoritative sources. - Documented analyses of EU regulatory and certification instruments, including the ENISA Candidate Certification Scheme for the European Digital Identity Wallet, the implementing acts adopted under Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 as amended, and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/848 on relying party registration. - Engagement towards EUDIW interoperability at multiple events (Unfold, EUDI Wallets Launchpad), documentation of interoperability findings. - Engagement as a partner of France Identité under the 'Ready for France Identité' label. - Participation in the German EUDIW Sandbox program. - Contributions to the French national consultation organised by the Direction Générale des Entreprises (DGE) on digital identity policy and age verification.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
France Identité programme: Verifiables holds the 'Ready for France Identité' partner label, granted by the French national digital identity service (France Titres). APTITUDE consortium: Verifiables is a participant, contributing to Work Package 6 on strong customer authentication and crypto-payment authentication. FNTC: Fédération National des Tiers de Confiance, a French association of Trust Service Providers, in which Renaissance works on Digital Proofs France Digitale, French Tech Grand Paris: both French startups associations. Verifiables is also a member of the CCI (Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie) startup programme.
Organisation Members
Renaissance is a private company organised as a société par actions simplifiée under French law (RCS Paris 911 608 222, EUID FR7501.911608222). The company has no members, no subsidiaries, no parent company, and no controlled or controlling entities. The registration covers the activities of this single legal entity.
Additional Information
The estimate above is calculated bottom-up, covering only the share of company costs attributable to activities falling within the scope of the register, in line with the Transparency Register guidelines. Staff costs: based on 0.35 full-time equivalent (FTE) reported under Heading 10, applied to the loaded employer cost (gross salary, employer social charges, and benefits) of the two individuals involved. The 0.35 FTE corresponds to one person at approximately 25% of working time and one person at approximately 10%. Office and administrative overhead: pro-rated on the FTE share of interest-representation activities relative to total company FTE. In-house operational expenditure: documentation access, research subscriptions, and tooling supporting regulatory and standards analysis. Representation costs: travel and registration fees for industry and standards events with EU-policy relevance. Outsourced activities: none. Renaissance does not hire intermediaries (consultancies, law firms, or other interest representatives) to carry out covered activities on its behalf. Membership fees: pro-rated share of consortium and partner-programme membership fees attributable to covered activities. The figure refers to financial year 2025 (1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025), which is the most recent closed financial year. The data underlying this estimate is held by Renaissance and can be substantiated upon request.