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# Article 4 — Request of missing information to a crypto-asset white paper

**Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/296 · binding · OJ L, 2025/296, 13.2.2025 · dated 31 Oct 2024 [in force]**

*In force · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/296, OJ L, 2025/296, 13.2.2025 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 26 Oct 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2025/296/oj/eng)*

1. <a id="art-4-p-1"></a>Where the competent authority concludes that the crypto-asset white paper is not complete with regard to the requirements of [Article 19(1)](../../articles/19.md) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114, the competent authority shall inform the credit institution of the missing information and shall set a deadline by which that credit institution is required to provide the missing information.
2. <a id="art-4-p-2"></a>The deadline for providing any missing information referred to in paragraph 1 shall not exceed 20 working days from the date of the request. Until the expiry of the deadline referred to in paragraph 1, the period set in Article 3 shall be suspended. Any further requests by the competent authority for completion or clarification of the information for the assessment under Article 3 shall be at its discretion but shall not result in a suspension of the set period.
3. <a id="art-4-p-3"></a>Following any request from the competent authority referred to in paragraph 1, the credit institution shall submit a revised crypto-asset white paper to the competent authority within the deadline set in the request. The submission by the credit institution shall include the following:\
   <a id="art-4-p-3-a"></a>a) the revised crypto-asset white paper in a clean, unmarked version;\
   <a id="art-4-p-3-b"></a>b) the revised crypto-asset white paper in a version with all the changes clearly marked, highlighting all supplementary information that is new compared to the original version of the crypto-asset white paper submitted in accordance with Article 1;\
   <a id="art-4-p-3-c"></a>c) an explanation as to how the supplementary information, reflected in the version referred to in point (b), addresses the competent authority’s request pursuant to paragraph 1 for providing missing information.
