1. This Title shall apply to acts carried out by any person concerning crypto-assets that are admitted to trading or in respect of which a request for admission to trading has been made.
2. This Title shall also apply to any transaction, order or behaviour concerning crypto-assets as referred to in paragraph 1, irrespective of whether such transaction, order or behaviour takes place on a trading platform.
3. This Title shall apply to actions and omissions, in the Union and in third countries, concerning crypto-assets as referred to in paragraph 1.
Title VI: PREVENTION AND PROHIBITION OF MARKET ABUSE INVOLVING CRYPTO-ASSETS
Article 86
Scope of the rules on market abuse
Related Recitals (Preamble)
Recitals provide interpretive context and policy rationale for the legislative provisions.
(95)
Market abuse rules rationale
Summary: It is important to ensure confidence in markets in crypto-assets and the integrity of those markets. It is therefore necessary to lay down rules to deter market abuse for crypto-assets that are admitted to trading.
(97)
Derivatives and market abuse
Summary: Derivatives that qualify as financial instruments as defined in Directive 2014/65/EU, and whose underlying asset is a crypto-asset, are subject to Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 when traded on a regulate...