When a reporting entity (e.g., an issuer, offeror, or person seeking admission to trading) notifies a modification of a white paper originally submitted before the entry into application of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2984 on 23 December 2025, is the reporting entity required to submit the modified white paper in the machine-readable format specified in the regulation?

Under Article 2(5)(b) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/957 (“RTS on STORs”), should the annually conducted audit of arrangements, systems and procedures be performed by an external auditor, or would an internal audit be sufficient? How should the “internal review” mentioned alongside the audit be understood?

May CCPs treat assets and positions of affiliates of clearing members as proprietary assets and positions of the clearing member as indicated in RTSs 153/2013 and 149/2013?

Under Article 62(2)(q) of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR):
1. May independent contractors provide advice on crypto-assets on behalf of crypto-asset service providers (CASP) without being authorised as CASPs nor directly employed by said CASPs?
2. May independent contractors be hired by CASPs to provide crypto-assets advice on behalf of said CASPs?

Are MTFs and OTFs required to generate instrument status messages even when the instrument is already on halt / suspended by a primary exchange?