Art. 9 Designation to identify natural persons | RTS on record keeping | MiCA

1. A clientmeans any natural or legal person to whom a crypto-asset service provider provides crypto-asset services; who is a natural person shall be identified in 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;’s records using the designation resulting from the concatenation of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (2-letter country code) of the clientmeans any natural or legal person to whom a crypto-asset service provider provides crypto-asset services;’s nationality, followed by the national clientmeans any natural or legal person to whom a crypto-asset service provider provides crypto-asset services; identifier specified in Annex II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/590, based on the clientmeans any natural or legal person to whom a crypto-asset service provider provides crypto-asset services;’s nationality.
1. 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 for 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;.
1. For the purposes of identifying a natural person, if the 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.
1. 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 EEA and 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.
1. Where a clientmeans any natural or legal person to whom a crypto-asset service provider provides crypto-asset services; 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; shall also identify that person based on the country of residence of the person as prescribed in Field 41 of Table 2 in the Annex.
1. Where the identifier assigned in accordance with paragraph 2 is based on CONCAT, the clientmeans any natural or legal person to whom a crypto-asset service provider provides crypto-asset services; shall be identified by 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; using the concatenation of the following elements in the following order:
  1. the date of birth of the person in the format YYYYMMDD;
  2. the five first characters of the first name of the person;
  3. the five first characters of the surname of the person.
1. For the purposes of paragraph 6, prefixes to names shall be excluded and first names and surnames shorter than five characters shall be appended by ‘#’ so as to ensure that references to names and surnames in accordance with paragraph 6 contain five characters. All characters shall be in upper case. No apostrophes, accents, hyphens, punctuation marks or spaces shall be used.