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Single Digital Entry Point

EU national portal for STR platform data under Regulation 2024/1028; live in five member states.

The EU's Single Digital Entry Point went live in five member states, Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Portugal, when Regulation 2024/1028 took full effect on 20 May 2026, while Germany and the Netherlands remain without a working portal.

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Key Question

Which EU countries have a working Single Digital Entry Point for Airbnb data on 20 May 2026?

Timeline for Single Digital Entry Point

#3 20 May

Required from all member states as the data-transmission gateway for platform listing data

Nomads & Communities: EU short-let rule lands with split enforcement
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Background

The Single Digital Entry Point (SDEP) is the national portal each EU member state must operate under EU Regulation 2024/1028. Every short-term rental platform, including Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, must transmit monthly listing data, covering property address, host registration number, listing URL, nights rented and guests per night, into the SDEP for Onward forwarding to municipal authorities. The SDEP is the data infrastructure that turns the Regulation from a declaration into an enforcement tool.

The split in member-state readiness reflects a decade's difference in domestic short-term-rental politics: southern members built registration frameworks under housing-movement pressure years before Brussels legislated, while northern members did not. Amsterdam, for instance, enforces its short-let cap locally rather than through an SDEP, because the Netherlands has not built the required system.

Where a national SDEP exists, it becomes the enforcement backbone for that country's platform data, feeding the fines and registration disputes that follow; where none exists, cities are Left to build their own local levers instead.

Key Issues
EU portal rollout

Split enforcement leaves two states exposed

EU Regulation 2024/1028 took full effect on 20 May 2026, and the Single Digital Entry Point went live in five member states: Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Portugal. Germany had not transposed the underlying rules and the Netherlands' portal remained mid-build, so listings in Berlin and Amsterdam sat outside the enforcement system from day one while the European Commission published nothing on its own readiness assessment.

Spain's SDEP, built on the infrastructure of Royal Decree 1312/2024, is the architecture behind Airbnb's €64 million Spanish fine. The Tribunal Supremo's 21 May ruling voiding the national STR registration number Left the platform-data feed itself intact: the court's federalism reasoning devolved registration competence to the regions without touching the SDEP's separate data-transmission obligations.

Common Questions

Reference

Did Spain's Supreme Court ruling kill the SDEP?
No. STS 620/2026 voided Spain's mandatory national STR registration number (NRA) but explicitly upheld the SDEP data-transmission obligations. Platforms must still submit monthly data through the Spanish SDEP.Source: event
What information does Airbnb have to send to the EU Single Digital Entry Point?
Monthly: property address, host registration number, listing URL, nights rented, and guests per night.Source: EUR-Lex
Which EU countries are ready to enforce Airbnb data rules from 20 May 2026?
Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Portugal have live Single Digital Entry Points. Germany and the Netherlands do not.Source: RentalScaleUp
How does the SDEP affect Airbnb hosts in Europe?
Airbnb and other platforms must submit monthly data about each listing (registration number, address, nights booked) to national SDEP portals. Hosts without valid registration numbers in their jurisdiction face having their listings deactivated.Source: event
What is the EU Single Digital Entry Point for short-term rentals?
The SDEP is the EU portal through which STR platforms (Airbnb, Vrbo, etc.) must transmit monthly listing and activity data to national authorities under EU Regulation 2024/1028, which reached full application in May 2026.Source: event
Why have Germany and the Netherlands not set up their SDEP portals?
Germany has not transposed the underlying EU rules at federal level; the Netherlands' portal remains mid-build despite an 18-month transposition Runway.Source: RentalScaleUp