MiCA Passporting

How MiCA passporting works

1. Authorisation at home: the firm is authorised by the competent authority of its home Member State.
2. Notification: the firm sends its home authority a list of the Member States where it intends to provide services, the services concerned and the starting date.
3. Forwarding: within 10 working days, the home authority passes this information to the host countries, to ESMA and to the EBA.
4. Start of services: the firm may begin once it has been told the information was passed on, and at the latest from the 15th calendar day after its notification.

Source: MiCA Article 65.

What MiCA passporting means for you

An exchange authorised in Austria, Malta or Luxembourg can serve customers in Finland, Spain or Poland without a separate local licence, if it has notified those countries.

The rules are the same everywhere, because MiCA is a regulation that applies directly in every Member State.

Supervision stays mainly with the home regulator, which is the one named in the ESMA register.

Why MiCA passporting does not mean "available everywhere"

• Not every country is notified: a firm chooses where to offer services, and some notify only a few countries.
• Not every service everywhere: the notification lists services, which can differ by country.
• Business choices: a passported firm may still decide not to accept customers from a country, or not to offer a product there.

The page on exchange availability by country shows which listed exchange has notified which country.

MiCA passporting examples from the ESMA register

Example from the ESMA register as downloaded on 24 October 2026: some exchanges have notified all 30 EEA countries, while some smaller national providers have notified only two or three.

Number of EEA countries (home state included) in each listed exchange's passport notification, from the ESMA register.

How this site uses MiCA passporting data

For each listed exchange, CoinTrustRadar.com combines the home state and the notified countries from the ESMA register into a list of countries.

When you open the site, your approximate country is determined from your IP address, and an exchange card is shown only if your country is on that exchange's list.

Visitors from outside the EEA, or whose country cannot be determined, see a notice instead of exchange cards.

There is no manual country selector, because choosing a different country would defeat the purpose of the filter.

The EEA and MiCA passporting

MiCA passporting covers the 27 EU Member States and, through the EEA agreement, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, which appear in the ESMA register's notification lists.

The United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States are outside the passport, and their own rules apply there.

If you move to another country

If you move, check whether your exchange has notified your new country of residence.

Exchanges usually ask for proof of address, and their terms may require you to tell them about a move.

MiCA passporting: home and host regulators

For a customer, the home regulator is usually the most relevant authority, and it is shown on every exchange card on this site.

MiCA passporting: big and small footprints

Large international exchanges tend to notify all or nearly all EEA countries, because they want to serve the whole market.

National providers often focus on a few countries where they have customers, language support and local payment methods.

Both models are legitimate; what matters is whether your country is on the list.

Home state and number of EEA countries in each listed provider's passport notification, from ESMA's register.

MiCA passporting and language

A passport allows a firm to serve a country, but it does not oblige the firm to offer the local language or local customer support.

Check whether terms, support and complaints are available in a language you understand before opening an account.

MiCA passporting and local rules

MiCA harmonises the rules for crypto-asset services, but some areas remain national, such as tax, some consumer protection rules and how marketing is supervised in practice.

A passported exchange therefore follows MiCA everywhere, while you remain subject to your own country's tax rules.

MiCA passporting: when a firm withdraws

A firm can stop serving a country, and an authorisation can be withdrawn.

If your exchange announces that it will stop serving your country, follow its instructions and deadlines to withdraw or transfer your assets, and download your records.

MiCA passporting: footprints in the register

Counted from ESMA's interim CASP register file downloaded on 24 October 2026, 387 entries.

Most entries either stay within a few countries or notify almost the whole EEA, with relatively few in between.

MiCA passporting: the notification steps under Article 65

1. Notification: the provider sends its home regulator a list of Member States, the services it plans to provide there and the start date.
2. Forwarding: the home regulator forwards the information to the host countries' regulators within 10 working days.
3. Start: the provider may start from receipt of the communication, or at the latest on the 15th calendar day after submitting its information.

Source: MiCA Article 65 on EUR-Lex.

MiCA passporting: questions readers ask

Does passporting mean the app is in my language? No; language, payment methods and products are business choices, not part of the passport.

Can a provider stop serving my country? Yes; it can withdraw from a market, and its terms explain how customers are informed and can withdraw their assets.

Why does this site hide some exchanges in my country? Because cards appear only where the visitor's country is the home state or in the notification list.

MiCA passporting: checking a provider yourself

1. Find the provider's legal name: in its terms of use or website footer.
2. Search the register: with the MiCA licence checker.
3. Look at the home state: the country of the authorising regulator.
4. Read the notification list: the two-letter country codes where the provider may serve customers.
5. Find your country code: for example FI for Finland, SE for Sweden or EE for Estonia.

If your country is neither the home state nor in the list, the provider has not notified it under MiCA.

MiCA passporting: country codes used in the register

The register uses two-letter codes for EEA countries, such as DE for Germany, FR for France, NL for the Netherlands and IS, LI and NO for Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

Greece appears in the register as EL rather than GR, which this site translates automatically.

Knowing the code for your country makes reading the notification list much quicker.

MiCA passporting and customer service

A passport allows a provider to serve customers in a country, but customer support may still be offered only in some languages.

Check before you open an account whether help and the complaints procedure are available in a language you understand well.

Clear communication matters most at the moment something goes wrong.

Good support in your language is worth checking first.

Frequently asked questions

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CoinTrustRadar.com editorial team

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