Article 15 Identification of crypto-assets

When providing information to competent authoritiesmeans 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; under Articles 6 and 7, 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; shall identify the 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; that are the subject of the recorded order or transactionmeans the conclusion of an acquisition or disposal of crypto-assets other than the crypto-assets referred to in Article 2(3) and (4) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114;, or used as a means of payment, by using a digital token identifier that is compliant with the ISO 24165 standard or an equivalent unique identifier approved by ESMA at Union level, which meets all of the following characteristics: