{"id":557134,"date":"2026-02-17T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/poland-president-vetoes-mica-bill-again-as-crypto-companies-look-to-license-abroad\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:54:23","slug":"poland-president-vetoes-mica-bill-again-as-crypto-companies-look-to-license-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/poland-president-vetoes-mica-bill-again-as-crypto-companies-look-to-license-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland president vetoes MiCA bill again as crypto companies look to license abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDIvMDE5YzZhZTctNjQ2ZC03YzcyLWE3ZmItZmI3MTU4OGY2NjRhLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Poland president vetoes MiCA bill again as crypto companies look to license abroad\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a second MiCA crypto bill, saying it was \u201cpractically identical\u201d to a previous version, leaving local companies in limbo ahead of a summer MiCA deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s president vetoed a second bill meant to align the country\u2019s crypto rules with the European Union\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation framework, deepening uncertainty for local platforms as a key transition deadline approaches.<\/p>\n<p>President Karol Nawrocki declined to sign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sejm.gov.pl\/Sejm10.nsf\/PrzebiegProc.xsp?id=12B0E819062F38BBC1258D5C006449B6\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bill 2064<\/a> last week, marking the second veto of proposed legislation to implement the EU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/learn\/articles\/markets-in-crypto-assets-regulation-mica\">Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA)<\/a>, the president\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prezydent.pl\/aktualnosci\/wydarzenia\/prezydent-podpisal-osiem-ustaw-dwie-zawetowal,114967\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Thursday. <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/poland-president-veto-crypto-bill-political-clash\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/poland-president-veto-crypto-bill-political-clash\">Nawrocki vetoed a similar measure in December<\/a> and described Bill 2064 as \u201cpractically identical\u201d to the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sejm.gov.pl\/Sejm10.nsf\/PrzebiegProc.xsp?id=15CCD572DA60810FC1258CC000642C12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sejm.gov.pl\/Sejm10.nsf\/PrzebiegProc.xsp?id=15CCD572DA60810FC1258CC000642C12\">Bill 1424<\/a> vetoed previously.<\/p>\n<p>The veto followed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knf.gov.pl\/?articleId=96997&amp;p_id=18\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a> by the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF), warning that Poland has not designated a competent authority to supervise the crypto market, highlighting the MiCA transition deadline of July 1, 2026. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/poland-crypto-bill-second-veto-firms-seek-mica-abroad\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a second MiCA crypto bill, saying it was \u201cpractically identical\u201d to a previous version, leaving local companies in limbo ahead of a summer MiCA deadline. Poland\u2019s president vetoed a second bill meant to align the country\u2019s crypto rules with the European Union\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation framework, deepening uncertainty for local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-557134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}