Source: OJ L, 2025/419, 24.3.2025Current language: EN
- Markets in crypto-assets
ART/EMT issuer
- RTS on own funds adjustment timeframe
Article 2 Timeframe
The competent authority of the home Member State shall notify the timeframe within which an issuer of asset-referenced tokens or e-money tokens referred to in Article 1 shall adjust its own funds, within 25 working days from the notification of a decision to classify an asset-referenced token or e-money token as significant, or from the notification to the issuer to comply with the requirement of Article 45(5) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114. That timeframe shall be set after a dialogue with the relevant issuer.
The competent authority shall grant to the relevant issuer no more than 6 months after the notification referred to in paragraph 1 to adjust its own funds, having regard to the potential impact on the relevant issuer, its specificities and risks to the financial stability of the wider financial system.
Within 25 working days from receipt of the notification on the timeframe referred to in paragraph 1, the relevant issuer shall submit to the competent authority a detailed plan on how its own funds are to be adjusted to meet the requirement of Article 45(5) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114.
The plan shall include time-bound steps and procedures to carry out the own funds’ adjustment within the set timeframe.
The plan shall ensure that the own funds items and instruments that will be used to comply with the increased and adjusted requirement fulfil all the conditions set out in Article 35(2) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114.
The relevant issuer shall inform the competent authority immediately and in writing in case any step or procedure of the plan cannot be achieved in a timely manner. In such a case, the relevant issuer shall submit to the competent authority an update of the plan, including alternative steps or procedures that allow the issuer to adjust its own funds in the set timeframe.
The competent authority shall closely monitor the implementation of the plan.
The relevant issuer shall inform the competent authority of the completion of the steps provided in the plan, including a final notification to the competent authority when the required own funds adjustment has been completed, within 20 workings days from the completion.
Relevant recitals
Recital 2 Plan and supervision for own funds adjustment
Issuers of significant asset-referenced tokens or significant e-money tokens, as well as issuers of asset-referenced tokens or e-money tokens that are not significant, but are subject to Article 45(5) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 in accordance with Article 35(4) or Article 58(2), respectively, of that Regulation, should elaborate a plan to adjust the level of own funds to the required level within the timeframe required. Those issuers should discuss and agree the feasibility of such plan with the relevant competent authorities. Implementation of such plan should be closely monitored by competent authorities and, for that purpose, the relevant issuers should notify to the competent authority steps taken, including a final notification of the adjustment completion.
Recital 3 Determination of adjustment timeframe by authorities
Competent authorities of the home Member State should determine the timeframe for the issuers to adjust their own funds. Any such timeframe should have a maximum deadline and be as short as possible and based on a case-by-case assessment and determined after a dialogue with that issuer, having regard to the potential impact on that issuer, its specificities and risks to the financial stability of the wider financial system.
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- where the offeror or person seeking admission to trading of crypto-assets other than asset-referenced tokens or e-money tokens has its registered office in the Union, the Member State where that offeror or person has its registered office;
- where the offeror or person seeking admission to trading of crypto-assets other than asset-referenced tokens or e-money tokens has no registered office in the Union but does have one or more branches in the Union, the Member State chosen by that offeror or person from among the Member States where it has branches;
- where the offeror or person seeking admission to trading of crypto-assets other than asset-referenced tokens or e-money tokens is established in a third country and has no branch in the Union, either the Member State where the crypto-assets are intended to be offered to the public for the first time or, at the choice of the offeror or person seeking admission to trading, the Member State where the first application for admission to trading of those crypto-assets is made;
- in the case of an issuer of asset-referenced tokens, the Member State where the issuer of asset-referenced tokens has its registered office;
- in the case of an issuer of e-money tokens, the Member State where the issuer of e-money tokens is authorised as a credit institution under Directive 2013/36/EU or as an electronic money institution under Directive 2009/110/EC;
- in the case of crypto-asset service providers, the Member State where the crypto-asset service provider has its registered office;
- 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;