Source: OJ L, 2025/885, 20.8.2025

Article 4 Formation

Summary What does Article 4 of the RTS on market abuse say?

This brief but focused article places a direct training obligation on persons professionally arranging or executing transactions in crypto-assets.

It acts as a supporting requirement to the broader market abuse detection framework established in the preceding articles, ensuring that the human element behind the systems and procedures is adequately equipped.

The article requires that relevant staff receive effective and comprehensive training on a regular basis, with the scope of that training covering the full range of market abuse-related activities, including order and transaction processing and DLT functioning.

Important points:

Organise and provide effective and comprehensive training to all staff involved in market abuse prevention, monitoring, detection, and identification, including those processing orders and transactions or overseeing DLT functioning.
Training must take place on a regular basis.
The training must be appropriate and proportionate to the scale, size, and nature of the business.

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Les personnes qui organisent ou exécutent à titre professionnel des transactions portant sur des crypto-actifs organisent et dispensent une formation efficace et complète au personnel chargé de la prévention, de la surveillance, de la détection et de l’identification des ordres, transactions et autres aspects du fonctionnement de la DLT qui pourraient indiquer l’existence d’abus de marché, notamment au personnel participant au traitement d’ordres et de transactions ou chargé du fonctionnement de la DLT. Cette formation a lieu régulièrement et est adaptée et proportionnée à l’échelle, au volume et à la nature des activités.

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