EU implementation of age verification is actually base don zero knowledge proofs https://ageverification.dev/
It really should be just once that you need to show your id and then you should be able to generate as many proofs as you need whenever you need on any computer device, but they have an obsession on making very sure that it cannot be circumvented, as if it was insanely important.
How European can it be?
This looks like a private consortium of usual suspects Tales and T-Systems squandering taxpayers money, not an official thing.
Currently, it does not implement ZKP, and further requires proprietary Google Play Integrity use, making it an absolute toxic cesspool.