Member State detail
Latvia short-term rental regulation and SDEP status
Latvia has ministry signals supporting a short-term rental accommodation register, but no public SDEP/API documentation is currently available.
What this means
Latvia has publicly signalled a plan to establish short-term rental regulation and a short-term rental accommodation register.
The Ministry of Economics linked the proposal to reducing the shadow economy and to the EU short-term rental data-collection and data-sharing initiative.
Implementation status
The ministry indicated that a short-term rental could be classified as tourist accommodation under the Tourism Law based on use type or building type.
Public material frames the need to define STR specifics and operating requirements alongside a register.
Technical interface
No Latvia-specific SDEP OpenAPI documentation, source code, sandbox, registration-number validation API, or platform onboarding process is currently available.
Future monitoring should check whether Latvia turns the register plan into a national service and whether it publishes platform-facing interfaces.