Source: OJ L, 2025/1140, 10.6.2025

Current language: FR

Article 15 Identification des crypto-actifs


Summary What does Article 15 of the RTS on record keeping say?

This article sits alongside Article 14, which addresses how legal entity clients must be identified when reporting to competent authorities.

Article 15 applies the same logic to crypto-assets themselves: when crypto-asset service providers submit order or transaction information to competent authorities under Articles 6 and 7, they must use a standardised identifier for each crypto-asset involved.

The primary standard specified is ISO 24165, though an ESMA-approved equivalent at Union level is also accepted, provided it meets a defined set of quality characteristics.

Important points:

  • When reporting to competent authorities under Articles 6 and 7, use a digital token identifier compliant with ISO 24165 to identify crypto-assets in recorded orders or transactions.
  • An ESMA-approved alternative identifier is permitted, but only if it meets all eight listed characteristics, including being unique, neutral, reliable, open source, and subject to an appropriate governance framework.
  • The obligation applies to crypto-assets that are the subject of the order or transaction, as well as those used as a means of payment.

Springlex's summary of the article, a reading aid, not a substitute for the legal text.

Lorsqu’il fournit des informations aux autorités compétentes en vertu des articles 6 et 7, un prestataire de services sur crypto-actifs identifie les crypto-actifs qui font l’objet de l’ordre ou de la transaction enregistré(e), ou qui sont utilisés comme moyen de paiement, en utilisant un identifiant de jeton numérique conforme à la norme ISO 24165 ou un identifiant unique équivalent approuvé par l’AEMF au niveau de l’Union, qui répond à toutes les caractéristiques suivantes:

  1. il est unique;

  2. il est neutre;

  3. il est fiable;

  4. il est open source;

  5. il est évolutif;

  6. il est accessible;

  7. il est disponible à un coût raisonnable; et

  8. il est soumis à un cadre de gouvernance approprié.

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