Attributes are features, characteristics or qualities of a person, such as for example name or nationality. The EDIR includes a new trust service of electronic attestation of attributes, which means that in an electronic for it is attested that a person for example has a certain nationality.  For this, the EDIR mandates Member States to allow qualified trust service providers (service providers which would provide this trust service and fulfill all conditions to be considered ‘qualified’) to verify for certain attributes the authenticity directly against the relevant authentic source.