Compliance by design
Article 7
1. Online short-term rental platforms shall: (a) design and organise their online interface in a way that requires hosts to self-declare whether the unit offered for short-term accommodation rental services is located in an area where a registration procedure has been established or applies; (b) design and organise their online interface in a way that, when hosts declare that a unit offered for short-term accommodation rental services is located in an area where a registration procedure has been established or applies, users are able to identify the unit through a registration number; and ensure that hosts have provided a registration number prior to allowing the offering of the short-term accommodation rental services in respect of that unit, and that hosts display that registration number clearly as part of their listing; (c) make reasonable efforts to randomly check on a regular basis, declarations of the hosts concerning the existence or not of a registration procedure, taking into account the list made available pursuant to Article 13(1), point (a), and, where such a procedure exists, the validity of the registration number provided by the host, through the use of the functionalities offered by the single digital entry points referred to in Article 10(2), point (b), after allowing the offering of the short-term accommodation rental services by the host. 2. Online short-term rental platforms shall inform, without undue delay, the competent authorities and the hosts of the results of the random checks referred to in paragraph 1, point (c), concerning incorrect declarations of hosts, the misuse of a registration number, or invalid registration numbers. 3. Online short-term rental platforms shall inform hosts adequately of the applicability in a given area of registration procedures, taking into consideration the lists referred to in Article 13, and the information referred to in the second column, row ‘N. Services’, point 4, of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/1724, to be made available by Member States.