EU short-term rental regulation 2024/1028: what changes for hosts in Italy

What is EU Regulation 2024/1028?

It’s the European regulation on data collection and sharing for short-term accommodation rental services. It was published in the Official Journal of the European Union in April 2024 and applies in every Member State from 20 May 2026. As a regulation, it applies directly: no national law is needed to bring it into force.

Its goal is transparency: giving public authorities reliable data on how many homes are let, where and for how many nights, so they can enforce their own rules. The regulation does not decide whether or where you can let, sets no night caps and doesn’t replace national or municipal rules: it governs how units are registered and how data flows from platforms to authorities. The conditions for any limits in areas where housing is short are the subject of a separate proposal still under discussion, the Affordable Housing Act presented by the European Commission on 9 September 2026, which isn’t law (checked on 12 November 2026).

For Member States it works as an opt-in: none is obliged to introduce registration, but those that do, or that ask platforms for data, must follow the regulation’s rules. Italy already has national registration: it’s the procedure that gives you the CIN code for short-term rentals. If you also host in other EU countries, each one decides whether to require registration, and where it does, the same platform rules apply.

Who does it apply to, and with what obligations?

What must hosts in Italy do?

For anyone letting in Italy, the regulation’s obligations largely overlap with those already in force with the CIN. In practice:

• Have the registration code: in Italy it’s the CIN, issued by the Ministry of Tourism on the BDSR (Banca Dati delle Strutture Ricettive), the national accommodation database.
• Show it in every listing: already mandatory in Italy since 2025, now with active checks by the platforms.
• Keep your data up to date: the address, type of accommodation and holder must match between the national database and your listings, or the platform’s check may fail.
• Respond to requests from authorities and platforms if your number is flagged as invalid.

If you live abroad, nothing extra is required because of your residence: foreign owners request the CIN on the BDSR with dedicated foreign-user credentials, as our CIN guide explains. If you’re setting up a new rental, the full sequence of registrations and reports is in how to start a short-term rental in Italy, and the wider rules are in our guide to Italy’s short-term rental law.

What must Airbnb, Booking.com and other platforms do?

The newest part of the regulation concerns platforms. According to the European Commission and the European Parliament, they must:

1. 1Allow and display the registration number in every listing for units subject to registration.
2. 2Verify, with reasonable efforts, that the number is correct, and run regular random checks on listings.
3. 3Remove or suspend listings without a valid number when the competent authorities ask.
4. 4Send activity data to the country’s single digital entry point: every month, or every three months for micro and small platforms (with an average of no more than 4,250 listings).

What data reaches the authorities?

The data passes through the single digital entry point each country must set up and is then made available to the competent authorities, in line with the GDPR. The technical details of Italy’s implementation are set by the Ministry of Tourism: follow the notices published on the BDSR portal.

What changes in practice for hosts in Italy?

For a host who is already compliant, the change is mostly about visibility: the authorities receive from the platforms figures they used to piece together from different sources. The Ministry of Tourism’s BDSR Lens dashboard, used by Comuni (municipalities) since 2025 and, since June 2026, also by the tax authorities and the police, already helps them check properties and online listings. It’s reasonable to expect easier checks on whether what happens on the platforms matches what you report elsewhere:

• the Alloggiati Web registrations you send to the police for every guest: see how Alloggiati Web guest registration works;
• the ISTAT data you send to the Region, often through Ross1000: see our Ross1000 guide;
• the tourist tax declared to the Comune: see Italy’s tourist tax on short-term rentals;
• the income in your tax return: for rates and limits, read our guide to the cedolare secca.

The practical advice is simple: make sure all these figures come from the same source. If you copy guests by hand into three different portals, sooner or later a number won’t add up.

How do you keep your data in order with Maurice?

The regulation asks nothing new of hosts on the guest side, but it makes consistent figures more important. That’s exactly where Maurice helps:

• bookings arrive in Maurice automatically, without manual entry, from your PMS or channel manager and from platforms such as Airbnb and Booking.com: the list is on the integrations page;
• guests complete online check-in, and Maurice collects and checks their details and documents;
• registrations go to Alloggiati Web and guest movements to your region’s ISTAT portal, where supported, with automatic Ross1000 reporting;
• the tourist tax is calculated and collected by card during check-in;
• from the dashboard you see occupancy, check-ins and payments, and you can export the data.

So the data you send to the police, the Region and the Comune stays complete and consistent with what the platforms send to the single digital entry point. If you manage many units for different owners, see how it works for property managers.