--- title: "Passporting a Lithuanian CASP authorisation across the EU" description: "Article 65: what you notify, the 10-working-day communication to host authorities, and the 15th-calendar-day backstop after which you may begin regardless." url: https://unbui.lt/requirements/passporting/ lang: en-GB updated: 2026-09-14 --- [Home](/) / [Requirements](/requirements/) / Passporting # Passporting across the Union This is the part of the regime that makes a single authorisation worth more than the market it was granted in, and the part where the timetable is far shorter than people expect. Article 65 is a notification, not a second authorisation. You tell your home authority where you intend to operate; it tells the host authorities, ESMA and EBA; and then you may begin. No host regulator grants you anything, and none of them can withhold anything. ## What you notify - the list of Member States you intend to provide services in; - which crypto-asset services you intend to provide on a cross-border basis; - the intended start date; - a list of all your other activities that are _not_ covered by the regulation. The last item is quietly important. It obliges you to disclose the business that sits outside MiCA, which is how supervisors see the whole entity rather than the regulated slice of it. Firms that keep an unregulated arm deliberately vague in their filings run into this. ## The clock Under Article 65 the home authority communicates a cross-border notification to host single points of contact, ESMA and EBA within 10 working days, and the provider may begin from receipt of that communication or at the latest from the 15th calendar day after submitting the information. [EUR-Lex, Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA), consolidated text](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32023R1114) · Verified on 2026-09-14 · Next review 2027-03-14 1. Day 0 You submit the Article 65(1) information To the home authority: for a Lithuanian authorisation, the Bank of Lithuania. 2. Within 10 working days Home authority communicates onward To host single points of contact, ESMA and EBA. You are informed without delay. 3. On receipt, or the 15th calendar day at the latest You may begin Whichever comes first in practice. The calendar-day backstop means silence does not block you. ### The backstop is the real feature Note that the outer limit is expressed in _calendar_ days while the authority's own deadline is in working days. If the home authority does not communicate, you may still start on the 15th calendar day after submitting. Passporting therefore cannot be slow-walked by inaction, which is a materially different position from every notification regime that makes the applicant wait for a confirmation that may never arrive. ## What passporting does not give you It extends the services you are already authorised for, and nothing else. Adding a service for a new market is not a passporting question. It is an extension of the authorisation itself, processed under the same Article 63 procedure as the original, and it will move your [capital class](/requirements/capital/) if the new service sits higher. It also does not displace host-state rules that sit outside MiCA. Consumer protection, advertising standards, tax and employment law remain local questions wherever you sell. Article 59(7) provides that a crypto-asset service provider serving clients cross-border is not required to have a physical presence in the host Member State. [EUR-Lex, Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA), consolidated text](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32023R1114) · Verified on 2026-09-14 · Next review 2027-03-14 Combined with Article 65, this is the commercial case for a single Union authorisation: no local entity, no local office, no local licence, in any Member State you notify. Whether Lithuania is the right home state for that authorisation is a separate question, and one worth answering on supervisory fit rather than on processing speed. Readiness assessment ## Work out whether you are ready to file We map your business model onto the named MiCA services, work out the class and the capital that follows, and test the gaps against the grounds an authority refuses on. The output is a go or no-go, a gap list, a budget and a route. [Request an assessment](/assessment/) [Check your licensing scope first](/requirements/service-classes/) Enquiries go by email for now. Nothing on this site collects your details, and [the assessment page](/assessment/) sets out what to include. Regulatory references on this page were read against the primary text on 14 September 2026. Every figure is held in the [source register](/sources/) with the document it came from.