Member State detail
Austria short-term rental regulation and SDEP status
Austria confirms federal responsibility for SDEP-style technical infrastructure, but provinces decide whether to activate registration procedures and no province was expected to initially implement by 20 May 2026.
What this means
Austria has an official implementation signal: the federal government says it will provide technical infrastructure for uniform data reporting under the EU short-term-rental regulation.
Rollout remains constrained by federal-province competence. Provinces decide independently whether to implement registration procedures, and no province was expected to initially implement by 20 May 2026.
Austria should be followed for province-level activation, national accommodation-register legislation, and publication of any platform-facing interface.
Implementation status
BMWET says it will establish the Single Digital Entry Point as the interface between online platforms and competent authorities.
A BMWET tourism-package announcement says the federal government will provide technical infrastructure for uniform data reporting as part of implementing the EU short-term-rental regulation.
BMWET also published a legal opinion on the competence basis for a nationwide accommodation register, including how coordinated federal/provincial legislation could implement a register and how the EU-required national access point could be structured.
The STR Regulation page says no province will initially implement the STR Regulation as of the 20 May 2026 application date, although provinces may implement later.
For the time being, the official page says there is no short-term-rental registration requirement and no obligation to display a registration number in online-platform listings.
Technical interface
No public source code, OpenAPI documentation, API portal, sandbox, or onboarding documentation is currently available.
The key technical watch item is whether Austria publishes a national SDEP or accommodation-register interface before province opt-in, or only once provinces activate the regime.
The nationwide-accommodation-register legal opinion is relevant because it discusses both local register responsibilities and possible design of the EU-required national access point, but it is not developer documentation.
Separate Austrian systems such as GISA expose APIs for business-register contexts, but the BMWET STR page does not identify them as the STR SDEP.