Ministry of Sport and Tourism 
Secretary of State
Ireneusz Raś

DT-WLRRT.052.84.2026

Warsaw, 15 May 2026

Position of the Ministry of Sport and Tourism on the application, from 20 May 2026, of Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services

In connection with the entry into force, on 20 May 2026, of Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 (OJ EU L 2024/1028 of 29 April 2024), hereinafter referred to as the “STR Regulation”, I would like to provide the following information. 

1.    The STR Regulation is a legal act that is generally and directly applicable within the entire EU territory. Unlike a directive, it does not require transposition into Polish law. This is not altered by the fact that certain provisions of the STR Regulation require statutory adaptation to Polish law, which is addressed by the draft Act amending the Act on hotel accommodation services and services of tour leaders and tourist guides, and certain other Acts (No. UC135), which has been drawn up by the Ministry. The status of the proceeding of the draft act within the government’s legislative process can be seen at the following link: https://legislacia.rcl.gov.pl/proiekt/12405554. 
2.    The currently binding Act of 29 August 1997 on hotel accommodation services and services of tour leaders and tourist guides (Journal of Laws of 2023, item 1944), and the Regulation of the Minister of Economy and Labour of 19 August 2004 on hotel establishments and other establishments where hotel accommodation services are provided (Journal of Laws of 2017, item 2166), issued pursuant to the said Act and for the purpose of its implementation, make it possible for mayors of municipalities and cities - within the system of registration of other establishments where hotel accommodation services are provided (Article 38(3) of the Act) - to assign an identification number, required by the Regulation, to every furnished residential property where short-term accommodation rental services are provided. 
3.    The solutions proposed in the aforementioned draft act will - after its entry into force - make it easier for mayors of municipalities and cities to maintain a register of other establishments where hotel accommodation services are provided, as well as to assign identification numbers to the establishments within the register. This will be facilitated by creating a Central Register of Tourist Accommodation Establishments, which will be an IT functionality (API) available to every municipality. 
4.    Pursuant to Article 5 of the STR Regulation and for the purposes of its implementation, municipality and city mayors may apply the regulations to natural persons. The processing of personal data has to be carried out in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ EU L 2016 No 119, p. 1). 
5.    As regards the inclusion of the identification number in short-term rental listings and the related obligations of online platforms acting as intermediaries in short-term rentals, as required by the STR Regulation, it should be noted that every register of other establishments where hotel accommodation services are provided should contain a generated number for every establishment listed therein. For reasons of the protection of legal certainty and entities operating in the market it can be stated that the numbers referred to in point 2 may be used in short-term rental listings. Due to the ongoing legislative process, the sanctions set out in the STR Regulation may not, in principle, be applied until the relevant provisions of the draft Act come into force. 

Finally, I would like to emphasise that this position may not be viewed as a binding interpretation of the law, for which the Minister has no powers, but merely as information on the currently applicable regulations and the ongoing legislative process. 

Ireneusz Raś 
Secretary of State