Simulated identity, on a demo certificate
What it means when a certificate says the identity step was not real.
Establishing that the person enrolling a company is really who they say they are normally rests on a qualified trust service under eIDAS — a regulated provider, not a self-assessment. Some deployments run instead with that step simulated, so the rest of the product can be shown — the flow, the certificate, the grade — before a provider is under contract.
Declarant identity in this deployment is SIMULATED. No qualified trust service is contracted, nothing here has been identified by anyone, and any certificate issued in this mode is a demonstration rather than an attestation.
What this changes about a certificate
Everything else about it is real — the register read, the VAT check, the document, the screening. Only the declarant's identity is a stand-in. That's still enough to affect the whole certificate: a person nobody actually verified was typing it, so a certificate produced this way is a demonstration of the mechanism, not an attestation you or anyone else should rely on for a real decision.
The trust centre names the current state of the eIDAS relationship — whether a provider is contracted, shortlisted, or not yet started — and it's generated from the same switch the certificate itself reads, so it can't say something the certificate contradicts.