Article 3 Designation to identify natural persons

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; operating a trading platform for crypto-assetsmeans a digital representation of a value or of a right that is able to be transferred and stored electronically using distributed ledger technology or similar technology; shall identify natural persons in the order book records by using the designation resulting from the concatenation of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 specified in ISO 3166 followed by the national clientmeans any natural or legal person to whom a crypto-asset service provider provides crypto-asset services; identifier as specified in Annex II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/590 based on the nationality of the person. The two-letter country code shall correspond to the nationality of natural person.

The national clientmeans any natural or legal person to whom a crypto-asset service provider provides crypto-asset services; identifier referred to in paragraph 1 shall be assigned in accordance with the priority levels provided in Annex II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/590 using the highest priority identifier that a person has regardless of whether that identifier is already known to the 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; operating a trading platform for crypto-assetsmeans a digital representation of a value or of a right that is able to be transferred and stored electronically using distributed ledger technology or similar technology;.

Where a natural person is a national of more than one European Economic Area (EEA) country, the country code of the first nationality when sorted alphabetically by its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and the identifier of that nationality assigned in accordance with paragraph 2 shall be used. Where a natural person has a non-EEA nationality, the highest priority identifier in accordance with the field referring to ‘all other countries’ provided in Annex II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/590 shall be used. Where a natural person has an EEA and a non-EEA nationality, the country code of the EEA nationality and the highest priority identifier of that nationality assigned in accordance with paragraph 2 shall be used.

Where a natural person is a resident of a country other than the one of its nationality, crypto-asset service providersmeans 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; operating a trading platform for crypto-assetsmeans a digital representation of a value or of a right that is able to be transferred and stored electronically using distributed ledger technology or similar technology; shall also identify that natural person based on the country of its residence as specified in field 50 of Table 2 of the Annex.

Prefixes to names shall be excluded and first names and surnames shorter than five characters shall be appended by ‘#’. All characters shall be in upper case. No apostrophes, accents, hyphens, punctuation marks or spaces shall be used.

1. the date of birth of that person in the format YYYYMMDD;

2. the five first characters of the first name of that person;

3. the five first characters of the surname of that person.