EU regulatory register · MiCA
Article 18Application for authorisation
CELEX 32023R1114 · Read on 2026-08-18
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1. Legal persons or other undertakings that intend to offer to the public or seek the admission to trading of asset-referenced tokens shall submit their application for an authorisation referred to in Article 16 to the competent authority of their home Member State.
2. The application referred to in paragraph 1 shall contain all of the following information:
(a)
the address of the applicant issuer;
(b)
the legal entity identifier of the applicant issuer;
(c)
the articles of association of the applicant issuer, where applicable;
(d)
a programme of operations, setting out the business model that the applicant issuer intends to follow;
(e)
a legal opinion that the asset-referenced token does not qualify as either of the following:
(i)
a crypto-asset excluded from the scope of this Regulation pursuant to Article 2(4); or
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