Short-term rental data Regulation, Articles 7 and 8 (compliance by design: registration numbers and random checks)

Article 7(1), point (a), requires an online short-term rental platform to design and organize its online interface in a way that requires hosts to self-declare whether the unit offered for short-term accommodation rental services is located in an area where a registration procedure has been established or applies.

Article 7(1), point (b), requires it to design and organize the interface so that, when a host declares that the unit is in such an area, users can identify the unit through a registration number, to ensure that the host has provided a registration number before allowing the offering of the services for that unit, and to ensure that the host displays that number clearly as part of the listing.

Article 7(1), point (c), requires it to make reasonable efforts to check at random, on a regular basis, the hosts' declarations about whether a registration procedure exists and, where one does, the validity of the registration number provided, through the functionalities of the single digital entry points, after allowing the offering of the services by the host.

Article 7(2) requires it to inform the competent authorities and the hosts, without undue delay, of the results of the random checks concerning incorrect declarations of hosts, the misuse of a registration number or invalid registration numbers.

Article 7(3) requires it to inform hosts adequately of the applicability in a given area of registration procedures, taking into consideration the lists Member States make available under Article 13 and the information in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/1724.

Article 8 requires it, upon receiving the self-declaration referred to in Article 7(1), point (a), and before allowing the host to use its services, to make best efforts, using the lists Member States make available under Article 13(1), point (a), to assess whether the self-declaration is complete, provided the assessment can be carried out in a proportionate manner by automated tools, and provides that this gives rise to no general monitoring obligation.

Article 15(1) applies Chapter IV of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 to the enforcement of Article 7(1) and Article 8, reads references in that Chapter to compliance with the relevant provisions of that Regulation as including Article 7(1) and Article 8, and extends the Commission's powers under that Chapter to their application.

Article 15(2) and (3) make the authorities designated by the Member State of the relevant single digital entry point competent to enforce Article 7(2) and (3), and require Member States to lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalty rules for infringements of Article 7(2) and (3) by online short-term rental platforms. Article 19 applies the Regulation from 20 May 2026.