Member State detail
Estonia short-term rental regulation and SDEP status
Estonia has public study material on the short-term rental market and accommodation-service obligations. In June 2026 the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications sent a draft amendment of the Tourism Act to public consultation that clarifies when short-term letting counts as an accommodation service, without proposing a national register; no public SDEP/API documentation is currently available.
What this means
Estonia has public statistics and study material on short-stay accommodation offered through online platforms.
A 2025 ministry study describes the short-term rental market as multifaceted and notes that short-term rental services have not been explicitly defined in Estonia.
On 18 June 2026 the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications sent a draft legislative intent for amending the Tourism Act to public consultation, with comments due by 1 September 2026 and a bill planned during 2026. It proposes clarifying when repeated, paid short-term letting counts as an accommodation service, which would bring fire-safety and guest-registration duties with it, and it explicitly does not propose a short-term rental register.
Implementation status
The study material links STR activity to accommodation-service requirements such as registering and retaining accommodation-user data and submitting statistical data where thresholds apply.
Statistics Estonia publishes platform-based short-stay accommodation statistics received from Eurostat.
Technical interface
No Estonia-specific SDEP OpenAPI documentation, source code, sandbox, registration-number validation API, or platform onboarding process is currently available.
Future implementation may need to decide whether sharing-economy STR activity is brought fully into accommodation-service registration and statistics systems.