Article 2 Submission of the application for authorisation

A legal person or other undertaking seeking authorisation as a crypto-asset service providermeans a legal person or other undertaking whose occupation or business is the provision of one or more crypto-asset services to clients on a professional basis, and that is allowed to provide crypto-asset services in accordance with Article 59; in accordance with Article 62 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (‘applicant’) shall submit to the competent authoritymeans one or more authorities:designated by each Member State in accordance with Article 93 concerning offerors, persons seeking admission to trading of crypto-assets other than asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens, issuers of asset-referenced tokens, or crypto-asset service providers;designated by each Member State for the application of Directive 2009/110/EC concerning issuers of e-money tokens; its application for authorisation by filling in the form set out in the Annex of this Regulation.

The legal person or other undertaking shall submit the application in a manner which enables storage of information so that it is accessible for future reference and that allows the reproduction of the information stored.