Which class your services fall into
Pick the services you intend to provide and see the class, the capital floor and the extra evidence each one pulls in. Everything else follows from this answer.
Requirements
What the firm has to be, as opposed to what the file has to contain. Start with the service classes: the rest of this section is downstream of that one choice.
Capital: the Annex IV figure is a floor
Article 67 requires the higher of the Annex IV minimum and a quarter of your fixed overheads. Work out which limb binds you.
Establishment and substance
One Union-resident director, effective management in the Union, an office where you actually operate, and the director-residency claim we will not repeat.
Governance and fit-and-proper evidence
Repute, collective competence and demonstrable time commitment, qualifying holders traced to natural persons, and the measures available short of refusal.
Passporting across the Union
A notification, not a second authorisation: 10 working days to communicate onward, and a 15-calendar-day backstop after which you may begin regardless.