Rule · BLOCKER

COMMON.SUMMARY

Plain-language summary

Citation: Art. 6(7), Art. 19(6), Art. 51(6) MiCAR
Canonical form: Art. 6 Abs. 7, Art. 19 Abs. 6, Art. 51 Abs. 6 MiCAR
Runs for: Annex I · other crypto-assets; Annex II · asset-referenced tokens; Annex III · e-money tokens
Severity if open: BLOCKER
Section key: summary
Minimum words: 80
Listed terms (English): summary, key information
Listed terms (German): zusammenfassung, wesentliche informationen
Package version: 1.2.1, built from source that may include unreleased changes
Source: rules/common.py

How the status is set

Missing: section summary is absent or empty, or holds only placeholder text such as TBD or TBC.
Review: the section has fewer than 80 words, or a listed term does not appear (case-insensitive substring match, with any run of spaces and line breaks read as one space).
The predefined warning of Art. 6(7), Art. 19(6) and Art. 51(6), second subparagraph, does not count toward the minimum. A numbered-field XHTML draft leaves out field 07 of Table 2 (I.04 of Table 3, I.05 of Table 4) with its label, and any draft leaves out the warning's sentences where they appear in the template's English or German wording. The finding then gives the words besides the warning.
In a numbered-field XHTML draft, Review also follows when a field of the section holds only a placeholder such as TBD; the finding names the field by its number and, in English, by the template's name where the linter has one for that field.
Pass: none of the above. A pass means the check matched, nothing more.

Legal basis

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

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

Checked on 2026-10-30 against the Official Journal text in English and German (OJ L 150, 9.6.2023), the consolidated version of 9 January 2024, which differs there only in a footnote number, and the predefined warnings of field 07 of Table 2, I.04 of Table 3 and I.05 of Table 4 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2984, as the Publications Office served them that day. No amendment and no English or German corrigendum changes Art. 6(7), Art. 19(6), Art. 51(6) or those fields.

Synthetic examples

Each example is linted when this page is generated. The build fails if a result differs.

MissingSection absent

The section key is missing or empty.

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

ReviewThin section

Every listed term appears, but the section is shorter than 80 words.

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

PassSection that matches

This text passes and shows what the check measures: listed terms and length. It is not model disclosure wording and does not meet MiCAR.

{
  "title": "Synthetic rule example",
  "type": "other",
  "sections": {
    "summary": "Synthetic example naming summary, key information. This synthetic sentence only adds length and states no fact about any issuer or token. This synthetic sentence only adds length and states no fact about any issuer or token. This synthetic sentence only adds length and states no fact about any issuer or token. This synthetic sentence only adds length and states no fact about any issuer or token. This synthetic sentence only adds length and states no fact about any issuer or token."
  }
}

ReviewPredefined warning and a short summary

The section has more than 80 words, but the predefined warning of the template does not count toward them, so the summary itself is thin.

{
  "title": "Synthetic rule example",
  "type": "other",
  "sections": {
    "summary": "Warning This summary should be read as an introduction to the crypto-asset white paper. The prospective holder should base any decision to purchase this crypto-asset on the content of the crypto-asset white paper as a whole and not on the summary alone. The offer to the public of this crypto-asset does not constitute an offer or solicitation to purchase financial instruments and any such offer or solicitation can be made only by means of a prospectus or other offer documents pursuant to the applicable national law. This crypto-asset white paper does not constitute a prospectus as referred to in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council or any other offer document pursuant to Union or national law. summary key information"
  }
}

Limitations

Reads one section key, summary. Text elsewhere in the draft is not considered.
Matches words and counts length. It does not test accuracy, consistency with other sections or the point-level items of the cited Part.
Status and severity are fixed by the rule. A draft cannot waive or downgrade them.
Outside field 07 of Table 2 (I.04 of Table 3, I.05 of Table 4) of a numbered-field XHTML draft, only sentences in the template's English or German wording are left out. A warning in other words outside that field still counts toward the 80 words.

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