MiCA third-country cooperation evidence

MiCA Article 97 third-country cooperation checklist

A source-backed, conservative evidence checklist for turning MiCA Article 97 cooperation agreements with third countries into authority touchpoint registers, information-sharing provenance, and supervisory handoffs.

Informational only. Not legal, regulatory, brokerage, underwriting, or insurance advice.

What Article 97 changes operationally

Cooperation agreements with third countries: Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 Article 97 is publicly titled around cooperation agreements with third countries in MiCA article references.

For CASP operating evidence, treat Article 97 as a reason to keep third-country authority touchpoints traceable: authority identity, source URL, retrieval date, information-sharing basis, confidentiality handling, response owner, and how the file connects back to Article 61 reverse-solicitation assumptions, Article 65 cross-border service maps, Article 95 cooperation records, and Article 109 register hygiene.

This page is a control-mapping checklist. It is not a legal interpretation, cross-border filing instruction, reverse-solicitation opinion, authorisation route decision, provider endorsement, broker recommendation, or assurance about any firm, authority, third country, service, communication, inspection, request, cooperation agreement, or fact pattern.

Article 97 third-country cooperation evidence map

third-country authority touchpoint register

Track the third-country authority name, Member State or EU authority touchpoint, source URL, retrieval date, subject matter, request owner, response status, and unresolved external-advice questions.

Information-sharing provenance

Keep document versions, production logs, confidentiality or professional-secrecy handling notes, redaction decisions, transmission records, and sign-off ownership for information prepared around third-country cooperation.

Reverse-solicitation and cross-border handoffs

Connect Article 97 context to Article 61 reverse-solicitation records, EU-facing promotion inventories, Article 65 cross-border service maps, and any Article 62 authorisation-route assumptions.

Register, governance, and risk links

Reconcile third-country cooperation files with Article 93 authority routing, Article 95 cooperation records, Article 96 EBA/ESMA request logs, Article 109 ESMA register hygiene, and Article 68 governance evidence.

Broker, insurer, partner, and internal-risk diligence questions

FAQ

What does MiCA Article 97 cover?

Article 97 is framed in public MiCA references around cooperation agreements with third countries. This checklist uses that title as a conservative control-mapping prompt for third-country authority touchpoints, information provenance, confidentiality notes, and response ownership.

Why does Article 97 matter for CASP evidence packs?

Third-country cooperation context can expose dependencies around EU-facing service scope, reverse-solicitation assumptions, cross-border service records, authority routing, source provenance, register hygiene, and governance ownership. CASPs should keep those records easy to review before counsel, partner, auditor, broker, insurer, or internal-risk diligence.

Does this page say a third-country firm can avoid MiCA authorisation?

No. This page is not a legal interpretation or route decision. It helps teams preserve source-backed evidence and unresolved questions for qualified legal, regulatory, competent-authority, partner, broker, insurer, auditor, or internal-risk review.