Source: OJ L, 2025/416, 14.3.2025

Article 1 Content, standards and format of data relating to orders in crypto-assets

Summary What does Article 1 of the RTS on trading platform order book records say?

This is the foundational article of the regulation, establishing the core obligation that underpins everything that follows.

It requires crypto-asset service providers operating a trading platform to make order book data available to competent authorities, covering the details set out across Articles 2 to 15.

It also sets the technical standard for how that data must be formatted and structured, anchoring all subsequent articles to a single access and reporting framework.

Important points:

Ensure that full details of each order advertised through your systems are kept available for, or directly accessible by, the competent authority at all times.
The scope of data to be maintained is defined by Articles 2 to 15, with the precise format specified in Tables 2 and 3 of the Annex.
All data submitted must be in JSON format and comply with the ISO 20022 standard.

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

1. Crypto-asset service providers operating a trading platform for crypto-assets shall keep at the disposal of the competent authority, or give the competent authority access to the details of each order in crypto-assets advertised through their systems set out in Articles 2 to 15, as specified in the format laid down in Tables 2 and 3 of the Annex, insofar as they pertain to the order concerned.
1. The data referred to in paragraph 1 shall be in a JSON format in accordance with the methodology laid out in standard ISO 20022.

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