Article 9
Designation to identify natural persons
1. A client who is a natural person shall be identified in the crypto-asset service provider’s records using the designation resulting from the concatenation of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (2-letter country code) of the client’s nationality, followed by the national client identifier specified in Annex II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/590, based on the client’s nationality.
2. The national client identifier referred to in paragraph 1 shall be assigned in accordance with the priority levels provided for in Annex II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/590 using the highest priority identifier that a person has, regardless of whether that identifier is already known to the crypto-asset service provider.
3. For the purposes of identifying a natural person, if the person is a national of more than one European Economic Area (EEA) country, the country code of the first nationality when sorted alphabetically by its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and the identifier of that nationality assigned in accordance with paragraph 2 shall be used.
4. Where a natural person has a non-EEA nationality, the highest priority identifier in accordance with the field referring to ‘all other countries’ provided in Annex II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/590 shall be used. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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:
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the date of birth of the person in the format YYYYMMDD; |
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the five first characters of the first name of the person; |
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the five first characters of the surname of the person. |
7. 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. All characters shall be in upper case. No apostrophes, accents, hyphens, punctuation marks or spaces shall be used.