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What a crypto-asset service provider needs to be authorised under MiCA: the class, the capital and the documents the Regulation itself names, service by service.
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One question, "casp authorisation checklist", answered with a checker that works on the page with no account, 5 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- CASP business plan and authorisation requirements: the document list: What a MiCA CASP application must contain: the 19 items in Article 62(2), the proofs in Article 62(3), and the detail added by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/305.
- CASP registration in the EU: one licence, twenty-seven markets: A MiCA CASP authorisation is valid across the Union under Article 59(7), by establishment or freedom to provide services, with no physical presence needed in host states.
- CASP capital requirements: Annex IV, fixed overheads and insurance: MiCA Article 67 requires the higher of the Annex IV minimum (EUR 50,000, EUR 125,000 or EUR 150,000) and a quarter of last year's fixed overheads, in CET1 or insurance.
- CASP licence in Spain: authorisation by the CNMV: A CASP licence in Spain is the MiCA authorisation granted by the CNMV. Who is on the register, what the file is, and when a Spanish licence is not needed.
- CASP licence in Portugal: Banco de Portugal and the CMVM: A CASP licence in Portugal is the MiCA authorisation. Law No 69/2025 splits the supervision between Banco de Portugal and the CMVM; here is the split.
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CASP Checklist is an information site. We are not a law firm and we are not authorised, registered by, affiliated with or endorsed by ESMA, the EBA, the European Commission or any national competent authority. Nothing here is legal or regulatory advice. The document list on this site is taken from Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 and its technical standards; your national competent authority publishes the forms that actually govern your application, and its requirements prevail.