Norway occupies a distinctive position on the crypto-licensing map: it is not a member of the European Union, yet the EU's crypto-assets regulation, MiCA (Regulation (EU) 2023/1114), applies to it in full through the EEA Agreement. The EEA Joint Committee decision of 20 February 2025 incorporated MiCA into the Agreement, and Norway put its own Crypto-Assets Act into force on 1 July 2025. As a result, authorisations for crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) are issued there by Finanstilsynet, the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority, under the same European rulebook that applies in the EU member states.
This page is built on official sources and tells you two honest limitations up front. First, the application fee: no amount is published on the Finanstilsynet pages reviewed — confirm the figure with the regulator before filing, because we do not print unofficial numbers. Second, there is no separate Norwegian national register page; the list of authorised firms is reflected in ESMA's interim MiCA register. The number of authorisations so far is small, which means both an early-mover market and a strict quality screen. Everything else — the legal basis, the application process, the statutory deadlines, the EEA passport and the Georgian layer — is documented below.
What the Norwegian Route Is and Why It Works as an EEA Key
Norway's Crypto-Assets Act implements MiCA and has been in force since 1 July 2025. Together, the act and the regulation establish the same authorisation regime as in the Union: a CASP obtains its authorisation from Finanstilsynet and can then serve the entire EEA space, not only the Norwegian market. That is the essence of the route — one home regulator, one authorisation, the whole EEA space.
One structural detail matters for third-country groups, including Georgian-owned ones: under MiCA, a third-country firm may serve clients in this market only at the client's own exclusive initiative — active solicitation and promotion require authorisation. The route therefore starts with a legal entity registered in the EEA with real corporate life there; this market does not open through a formal "e-residence" address.