Source: OJ L, 2025/885, 20.8.2025

Article 4 Training

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.

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

Persons professionally arranging or executing transactions in crypto-assets shall organise and provide effective and comprehensive training to the staff involved in the prevention, monitoring, detection and identification of orders, transactions and other aspects of the functioning of the DLT that could indicate the existence of market abuse, including the staff involved in the processing of orders and transactions or in charge of the functioning of the DLT. Such training shall take place on a regular basis and shall be appropriate and proportionate to the scale, size and nature of the business.

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