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What about users with no smart phone?
From skimming the texts, I don’t see a 100% hard requirement of using a smart phone.

Yes, in https://ageverification.dev/av-doc-technical-specification/d..., section 2.3 User Journey says

“To enable online age verification, the User is required to install an AV app on their mobile device”

but section 3 Architecture says

“The solution relies on a device-based proof of age model, leveraging widely available mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to store age attestations. This approach supports the goal of rapid deployment and broad accessibility. Alternative mechanisms for storing and presenting proof of age may be considered for future versions of the solution.”

and

“It is also recognised that devices may be shared among multiple users, for example, when a child has access to a parent’s mobile phone”

That indicates the child may not need to have a smartphone.

I think the vast majority of cases where this will be used it with users wanting to run smartphone or tablet apps, though. For those cases, requiring the user to own a smartphone isn’t problematic.

The slogan "Age Verification Solution for all Europeans" is a lie.

The honest slogan is "Age Verification Solution for Europeans Who Use Mobile Devices that are Controlled by US Corporations and by Extension US Government Which Can Revoke Your Use of the Solution with No Recourse".

I couldn't possibly even begin to express the vastness of my disdain for these Eurocrats... but even I can't believe they decided to name it EAVS.

The EAVS will be dropping yeah?

EU leaders are aware that for the next couple of decades, they will have to lead from a position of deep unpopularity. This is the "solution" to that problem, not whatever they're claiming is the problem.
The best solution is to not have age verification. Period.