The Association of Professionals of Dwellings and Holiday Apartments of Andalusia (AVVAPro) has called for better coordination between the different administrations to prevent tourism accommodation companies and professionals from having to repeatedly provide the same information in different procedures.
This request was raised at the event “Your voice in the Administration,” organized at the headquarters of the Confederation of Businesspeople of Andalusia (CEA), where AVVAPro spoke at the invitation of the employers’ organization together with representatives of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and of Public Function and of ATA.
The manager of AVVAPro, Ignacio Calandria, has detailed the burdens borne by managers and owners of tourist dwellings when they have to comply with multiple reporting obligations that require identical data on properties, stays, and operating periods. The association argues that simplifying these procedures would allow less time to be spent repeating procedures and more time on customer service and the day-to-day management of the business.
“AVVAPro does not ask for less oversight. It asks for oversight that is legally secure, technically smart, and based on the reuse of the information that the Administration already has,” the entity emphasized.
In its remarks, AVVAPro particularly highlighted the redundancies that exist between the travelers’ register, the tax obligations associated with DAC7, and the single window for Housing.
As an alternative, the association advocates moving forward with interoperability, that is, the ability of the systems of the different administrations to share and take advantage of data that is already available.
The aim is that, whenever feasible, public bodies reuse the information that they already have in their possession, instead of requiring companies and professionals to input and verify it again in each management. According to the sector, this improvement would reduce the time spent on bureaucracy and minimize errors stemming from sending the same data several times.
“Data must travel between administrations, not be submitted one more time after another by the citizen,” AVVAPro has summarized, also highlighting the boost to administrative dynamism that this would entail for the Administration itself.
The association frames this claim within a problem that goes beyond the scope of tourist accommodation and affects the entire fabric of the productive sector: "each obligation to again provide information that is already available represents time that a company or a self-employed person stops devoting to its activity".
During the event, AVVAPro has also asked for the proportionality of the burden entailed in obtaining authorization from the homeowners' association to start up a tourist-use dwelling to be reviewed.
The organization considers it necessary to analyze the real effect of this requirement on those who want to begin the activity and to study whether it is possible to ease that burden, always within the bounds of respect for the current legal framework. In parallel, AVVAPro has requested clarification of the regime applicable after the Supreme Court annulled article 10 of Royal Decree 1312/2024, whose fourth section supported the obligation to submit the annual informative model for short-duration rentals.
The entity has warned about the uncertainty this situation generates in relation to Order VAU/1560/2025, which approved that form and remains formally in force. Its demand focuses on defining the scope of the obligations and refining the regulations, without assuming that the annulment of the precept of the royal decree automatically implies the order’s invalidity.
"The annulment of the enabling rule requires immediate clarification and a regulatory cleanup that removes any legal uncertainty," the association has emphasized.
AVVAPro has thanked the CEA for the opportunity to submit these proposals directly to representatives of the Administration and has reiterated its commitment to public-private collaboration to move toward a regulation that is proportionate and effective, which guarantees compliance with the law without imposing unnecessary burdens on companies and professionals.