On 3 February 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated its Questions and Answers (Q&As) on the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2022/858 on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT).

The Q&As have been updated to include the following topics:

• Reporting of natural persons.
• Issuer for DLT financial instruments that are the digital representation of a previously issues financial instrument.
• Issuer for DLT financial instruments that are directly issued using a DLT.
• Instrument ID for transparency publication.