1.   Competent authorities shall deem an application for authorisation to be complete where that application contains all the required information referred in Article 18(2) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 and in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1125, with the appropriate content and level of detail enabling the competent authority to carry out the assessment of the application. Where, in accordance with Article 1(4) of this Regulation, the competent authority requires part of the information in paper form, the application shall not be deemed complete until the receipt of the information in paper form.

2.   Where the information provided in the application for authorisation, including the crypto-asset white paper referred to in Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114, is assessed and found to be incomplete, competent authorities shall immediately notify the applicant pursuant to Article 20(1) of that Regulation and indicate the missing required information. Competent authorities shall send such notification in paper format or by electronic means and shall indicate the contact details, the modalities, whether via upload on the internet portal, by electronic means or in paper form, and the deadline for the submission of the missing information set in accordance with Article 20(3) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114.

3.   Upon an application for authorisation being assessed as complete in accordance with Article 20 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 and paragraph 1 of this Article, the competent authority shall inform the applicant of that fact, together with the date of receipt of the complete application or, where applicable, the date of receipt of the information that completed the application.