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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.\n5. <a id=\"art-9-p-5\"></a>Where a client is a resident of a country other than the one of its nationality, crypto-asset service providers 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.\n6. <a id=\"art-9-p-6\"></a>Where the identifier assigned in accordance with paragraph 2 is based on CONCAT, the client shall be identified by the crypto-asset service provider using the concatenation of the following elements in the following order:\\\n   <a id=\"art-9-p-6-a\"></a>a) the date of birth of the person in the format YYYYMMDD;\\\n   <a id=\"art-9-p-6-b\"></a>b) the five first characters of the first name of the person;\\\n   <a id=\"art-9-p-6-c\"></a>c) the five first characters of the surname of the person.\\\\\n7. <a id=\"art-9-p-7\"></a>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. 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