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Pinned 🇦🇹 Austria partly open Verified 2026-09-01
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🇭🇷 Croatia
partly open
Verified 2026-09-01
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| Licence type | MiCA CASP Authorisation granted by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) | MiCA CASP authorisation under Regulation (EU) 2023/1114, implemented nationally via Croatia's MiCA Implementation Act (passed 27 July 2024, in force alongside EU MiCA from 30 December 2024). |
| Regulator | Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA) Österreich | HANFA (Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency); HNB (Croatian National Bank) supervises ART/EMT issuers. |
| Capital requirement | Austria capital requirement is included in the £349 pass. | Croatia capital requirement is included in the £349 pass. |
| Timeline to authorisation | Austria timeline to authorisation is included in the £349 pass. | Croatia timeline to authorisation is included in the £349 pass. |
| Local substance | Austria local substance is included in the £349 pass. | Croatia local substance is included in the £349 pass. |
| Application cost | Austria application cost is included in the £349 pass. | Croatia application cost is included in the £349 pass. |
| Ongoing cost | Austria ongoing cost is included in the £349 pass. | Croatia ongoing cost is included in the £349 pass. |
| Passporting | Austria passporting is included in the £349 pass. | Croatia passporting is included in the £349 pass. |
| MiCA CASPs approved | Austria mica casps approved is included in the £349 pass. | Croatia mica casps approved is included in the £349 pass. |
| Key restrictions | Austria key restrictions is included in the £349 pass. | Croatia key restrictions is included in the £349 pass. |
| Recent changes | Austria set 30 June 2026 as the end of its transitional regime (shorter runway than the EU default 1 July 2026 deadline), creating pressure for existing FM-GwG registered VASPs to secure full CASP authorisation; Bybit reported as licensed in Austria per exchange-tracking source OSL EU GmbH was authorised on 7 July 2026 (per ESMA's interim register), the eleventh Austrian CASP. | HANFA granted Croatia's first MiCA CASP licence to Zagreb-based Electrocoin in April 2026 - the first authorisation issued in-country. |
| Difficulty rating | Austria difficulty rating is included in the £349 pass. | Croatia difficulty rating is included in the £349 pass. |
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