Member State detail
Belgium short-term rental regulation and SDEP status
Belgium does not show a national public SDEP/API yet, but Brussels, Flanders, and Wallonia operate region-specific tourist-accommodation registration and compliance frameworks, and Flanders has a draft decree in its Parliament aligning its notification procedure with Regulation (EU) 2024/1028.
What this means
Belgium is a federal/regional case. Public information points to region-specific tourist-accommodation rules rather than one visible national short-term-rental registration service.
Brussels already requires tourist accommodation operators, including private persons offering rooms or homes through platforms, to register with Brussels Economy and Employment.
Flanders submitted a draft decree to its Parliament on 22 July 2026 that treats the existing notification to Toerisme Vlaanderen as the registration procedure under Regulation (EU) 2024/1028, records the registration number in the public register, removes accommodation whose notification is revoked, suspended or withdrawn, and prepares the central digital access point for platform data sharing. The decree has not been adopted.
Implementation status
The Brussels registration route requires supporting certificates from the municipality, including urban-planning and fire-safety related evidence.
EU Tourism Platform material describes Belgium as having distinct Brussels, Wallonia, and Flanders frameworks covering registration, zoning, fire safety, and insurance obligations.
The Flemish draft decree gives competent authorities, fiscal and criminal authorities, and regulatory and research bodies access to registration and activity data, and sets out the national digital access point required by Regulation (EU) 2024/1028.
Technical interface
No public Belgium-specific SDEP OpenAPI documentation, source code, sandbox, national API portal, or onboarding documentation is currently available.
The Flemish draft decree provides the legal basis for designating the central digital access point and for the associated data sharing; no endpoint, authentication model, or technical contract has been published.
A Belgian implementation may need regional routing and regional identifiers unless a federal SDEP normalises the data exchange layer.