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AV Trusted List – A New Trust Anchor for Age Verification

This solution introduces a new type of Age Verification Trusted List that is specifically designed for digital age verification use cases. Provided by the European Union, this trusted list acts as a central trust anchor and enables reliable validation of Proof of Age attestations across Member States. The new Trust Service List Type (TSLType) is defined as follows:

<TSLType>http://ec.europa.eu/tools/lotl/av/TrstSvc/TrustedList/TSLType/AVTL</TSLType>

The AV Trusted List not only defines a new trusted list type but also introduces a dedicated service type for age verification providers and verifiers. This innovation lays the groundwork for transparent, interoperable and EU-wide recognition of age verification attestations, allowing Member States and service providers to easily identify authorized issuers and ensure compliance with European regulations.

<TSPServices>
  <TSPService>
    <ServiceInformation>
      <ServiceTypeIdentifier>http://ec.europa.eu/tools/lotl/av/TrstSvc/Svctype/PAA</ServiceTypeIdentifier>
      <ServiceName>
        <Name xml:lang="en">Age Verification Testing Issuer</Name>
      </ServiceName>
      <ServiceDigitalIdentity>
        <DigitalId>
          <X509Certificate>...</X509Certificate>
        </DigitalId>
..
</TSPServices>

A complete AV Trusted List is available in GitHub at the following link. The example Trusted List also includes our issuer from the test environment ageverification.dev:

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-srv-web-verifier-endpoint-23220-4-kt/blob/main/src/main/resources/av-etsi-trusted-list.xml

This example AV Trusted List is used by default both in our Docker container and when compiling and running the verifier backend locally. The Trusted List is configured in the application properties file of the verifier backend (src/main/resources/application.properties).

verifier.trustSources[0].pattern=eu.europa.ec.av.*
verifier.trustSources[0].tl.location=classpath:av-etsi-trusted-list.xml

For future operations, this Trusted List has also been published in the eIDAS Dashboard. The ACCeptance Trusted List is available here:

https://acceptance.eidas.ec.europa.eu/efda/trust-services/browse/av-tl