Rule · MAJOR

COMMON.NOTIFICATION_DATE

Date of notification to the competent authority

Citation: Art. 6(8), Art. 19(7), Art. 51(7) MiCAR
Canonical form: Art. 6 Abs. 8, Art. 19 Abs. 7, Art. 51 Abs. 7 MiCAR
Runs for: Annex I · other crypto-assets; Annex II · asset-referenced tokens; Annex III · e-money tokens
Severity if open: MAJOR
Section key: notification_date
Minimum words: none: checks for a calendar date
Listed terms (English): none
Listed terms (German): none
Package version: 1.2.1, built from source that may include unreleased changes
Source: rules/common.py

How the status is set

Missing: section notification_date is absent or empty, or holds only placeholder text such as TBD or TBC.
Review: the section names no calendar date, that is no day, month and four-digit year that exist together. A month with its year, a two-digit year and an impossible date such as 31.02.2026 count as no date.
Pass: the section names such a date, however short the section. It may read 2026-03-02, 02.03.2026 or 2/3/2026, or write the month in English or German, as in 2 March 2026, March 2, 2026 or 2. März 2026. A pass means a date was found, nothing more.

Legal basis

Art. 6(8), Art. 19(7), Art. 51(7) MiCAR

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1114/oj/eng

Checked on 2026-10-27 against the Official Journal text in English and German (OJ L 150, 9.6.2023) and the consolidated version of 9 January 2024. No amendment and no English or German corrigendum changes Art. 6(8), Art. 19(7) or Art. 51(7). The date format was read in the English and German text of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2984, which has no amendment or corrigendum.

Synthetic examples

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MissingSection absent

The section key is missing or empty.

{
  "title": "Synthetic rule example",
  "type": "other",
  "sections": {}
}

MissingPlaceholder

A placeholder alone is no answer, so the section counts as missing.

{
  "title": "Synthetic rule example",
  "type": "other",
  "sections": {
    "notification_date": "TBD"
  }
}

ReviewMonth without a day

A month and a year name no calendar date.

{
  "title": "Synthetic rule example",
  "type": "other",
  "sections": {
    "notification_date": "Notified in March 2026."
  }
}

PassDate in the template format

Since 23 December 2025 the template of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2984 has the date reported as YYYY-MM-DD (field 01 of Table 2, I.01 of Tables 3 and 4). Four words suffice. The check does not confirm that the date is the date of notification.

{
  "title": "Synthetic rule example",
  "type": "other",
  "sections": {
    "notification_date": "Date of notification: 2026-03-02"
  }
}

Limitations

Reads one section key, notification_date. Text elsewhere in the draft is not considered.
Looks for a calendar date only. It does not confirm that the date is the date of notification or that it is plausible, and it does not check the table of contents that the same provisions require. Since 23 December 2025 the template of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2984 has the date reported as YYYY-MM-DD; the check accepts the other formats above as well and does not test that form.
Status and severity are fixed by the rule. A draft cannot waive or downgrade them.

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