Article 17Requirements for credit institutions

1. An asset-referenced token issued by a credit institution may be offered to the public or admitted to trading if the credit institution:

(a)

draws up a crypto-asset white paper as referred to in Article 19 for the asset-referenced token, submits that crypto-asset white paper for approval by the competent authority of its home Member State in accordance with the procedure set out in the regulatory technical standards adopted pursuant to paragraph 8 of this Article, and has the crypto-asset white paper approved by the competent authority;

(b)

notifies the respective competent authority, at least 90 working days before issuing the asset-referenced token for the first time, by providing it with the following information:

(i)

a programme of operations, setting out the business model that the credit institution intends to follow;

(ii)

a legal opinion that the asset-referenced token does not qualify as either of the following:

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a crypto-asset excluded from the scope of this Regulation pursuant to Article 2(4);

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an e-money token;

(iii)

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