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Monaco

43.7384° N · Southern Europe · not EU · not Schengen party · France voisinage

Monaco still runs police guest fiches — and a hotel contribution touristique — under sovereign law, not EU lodging rules.

Licensed hotels, furnished hotels and boarding houses must build a computerised guest fiche on arrival and send it without delay to the Direction de la Sûreté Publique; a daily electronic list follows every 24 hours. Owners and principal tenants who let furnished premises have parallel register and same-day arrival/departure duties. Separately, hotels and hotel residences collect the contribution touristique from non-domiciled adults. Monaco is a sovereign Principality — not an EU Member State and not a Schengen Agreement party — with a special France relationship under the 1963 voisinage and customs conventions.

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Essential

Ordonnance Souveraine n° 3.153 (arts. 9–11) requires hotel licence-holders and furnished landlords to file guest fiches with the Direction de la Sûreté Publique; hotels and hotel residences also collect the contribution touristique under Loi n° 1.548. Monaco is not EU and not a Schengen party — France voisinage frames entry; Loi n° 1.565 governs personal data, not GDPR / Reg 2024/1028 as Monegasque law.

At a glance · Monaco

  • Police fiche

    Hotels + meublés

  • Hotel list

    Every 24 hours → DSP

  • Tourist levy

    Hotels / résidences

  • EU / Schengen

    Neither · France link

Who this is for

What hosts and hotels actually need to know

Monégasque short-stay compliance is denser than a Riviera platform habit and it is not a copy-paste of French meublé-de-tourisme rules or EU Schengen guest-card checklists. First, identity and police reporting: Ordonnance Souveraine n° 3.153 du 19 mars 1964 (Titre III — Hébergement), as replaced for arts. 9–11 by Ordonnance Souveraine n° 1.091 du 4 mai 2007, requires hotel, hôtel meublé and pension de famille licence-holders to establish a fiche informatisée for every client — identity fields, travel-document details, room number, arrival and departure — transmit it sans délai to the Direction de la Sûreté Publique (DSP), notify departure electronically, and push a récapitulatif list automatically every 24 hours. Furnished landlords (propriétaire or principal locataire louant en meublé) must keep either the same computerised list or a registre coté et paraphé, and send a fiche on the day of entry and the day of departure. Article 12 adds a hard product rule: if you let only part of the building or apartment furnished, you may only host persons staying more than one month. Second, market access: commercial hotelier / loueur de meublés activity sits on Monaco’s prior-authorisation economy under Loi n° 1.144 du 26 juillet 1991; tourism hotels are classified under Arrêté Ministériel n° 2010-220. Third, money: Loi n° 1.548 du 6 juillet 2023 created a contribution touristique on non-domiciled adults (18+) staying in hotels or hotel residences — rates fixed by arrêté ministériel (revised downward by AM n° 2024-72), with semi-annual declaration and remittance to the Direction des Services Fiscaux under Ordonnance Souveraine n° 10.280. Fourth, framing: Monaco is not EU and not a Schengen party; entry and stay of foreigners are framed by the Franco-Monegasque Convention de voisinage (made exécutoire by OS n° 3.039) and the customs union (OS n° 3.038). Guest personal data sits under Loi n° 1.565 du 3 décembre 2024 — not GDPR or Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 as Monegasque law. Self check-in works when fiche fields and document capture complete before access release.

Front desk or digital, OS 3.153 art. 9 is the core: every client gets a computerised police fiche, DSP acknowledgement, departure notice, and the 24-hour list — plus contribution touristique collection where the establishment is listed.

  • 01Hold the hotel / hôtel meublé / pension licence footing required for art. 9 operators, with economic activity authorised under Loi 1.144 where applicable
  • 02Build the fiche informatisée on arrival for all persons accommodated; send sans délai to DSP and obtain the police acknowledgement code
  • 03Transmit the automatic 24-hour récapitulatif list and electronic departure notices; keep the list available for on-site police controls
  • 04Collect and remit contribution touristique for non-domiciled adults 18+ per Loi 1.548 and the current ministerial rate for your category

Chapter · Police fiches

Guest identity & DSP transmission

Titre III of Ordonnance Souveraine n° 3.153 turns lodging into a police-reporting duty: computerised fiches for licensed hotels, and parallel registers for furnished landlords.

Statute

“Les titulaires de licences d'hôtels, d'hôtels meublés, de pension de famille doivent établir lors de la venue de chaque client, une fiche informatisée mentionnant : les noms, prénom, sexe, date et lieu de naissance, profession, nationalité et adresse de toutes les personnes hébergées dans l'établissement ; les numéros ainsi que la date et le lieu de délivrance de leur carte de séjour, carte d'identité, passeport ou titre de voyage en tenant lieu ; leur numéro de chambre ou d'appartement ; leur date d'entrée dans l'établissement et de départ de celui-ci ; le code police servant d'accusé de réception informatisé.”
Ordonnance Souveraine n° 3.153 du 19 mars 1964, art. 9 (as replaced by OS n° 1.091 du 4 mai 2007) [01]
  1. 01

    Hotels — fiche sans délai + 24-hour list

    Art. 9 licence-holders send each computerised fiche without delay to the Direction de la Sûreté Publique, which issues an immediate computerised acknowledgement. Departure is notified electronically. Fiches are summarised on an IT list communicated automatically every 24 hours to DSP, and that list must be shown on police requisition during on-site controls.

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  2. 02

    Furnished landlords — art. 10 register

    A propriétaire or principal locataire who lets furnished all or part of a building or apartment must keep either a computerised list under art. 9 conditions or a registre coté et paraphé by a judicial police officer, with art. 9 mentions copied immediately without blanks. On the day of entry and the day of departure, send DSP either the computerised fiche or an approved paper model that also names the meublé and the owner/principal tenant.

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  3. 03

    Fallback when IT fails — art. 11

    If the computerised processing system is not functioning, keeping the register and sending the fiche under art. 10 becomes mandatory for persons subject to arts. 9 and 10. Design a paper/offline fallback — not only a happy-path PMS integration.

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  4. 04

    False names forbidden

    Art. 12 forbids knowingly entering anyone under false or assumed names on the fiches, lists or registers of arts. 9–11. Verification against the travel document is the practical way to keep that prohibition.

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Chapter · Licence

Licences, classification & the one-month partial-let rule

Police reporting assumes a lawful lodging footing. Monaco’s economy still runs on prior authorisation for many operators — and art. 12 restricts partial furnished lets to stays longer than one month.

  1. 01

    Economic activity authorisation — Loi 1.144

    Loi n° 1.144 du 26 juillet 1991 frames exercise of many economic and legal activities. Government guidance is blunt: non-Monegasque persons exercising artisanal, commercial, industrial or liberal activity need a prior autorisation d’exercice from the Ministre d’État, assessed on professional honourability, qualifications and a stable establishment. Official activity lists flag hôtelier / loueur de meublés among activities requiring authorisation (historical Arrêté du 18 novembre 1875 cited on the regulated-activities inventory).

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  2. 02

    Tourism hotel classification — AM 2010-220

    Arrêté Ministériel n° 2010-220 du 28 avril 2010 sets classification norms for hôtels de tourisme. Star category decisions are taken after Commission de l’Hôtellerie advice; classified establishments appear on government lists and feed the contribution touristique establishment schedule. Classification is the quality track for hotels — not an EU 2024/1028 registration number.

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  3. 03

    Partial furnished let — only stays > 1 month

    Art. 12 OS 3.153 (as replaced, including by OS n° 2.802 du 6 juillet 2010): the owner or principal tenant letting only part of the building or apartment furnished may only accommodate persons staying more than one month in the Principality. Whole-unit furnished products and licensed hotel modes under art. 9 sit on different tracks — do not treat a keybox room-share like a Paris meublé de tourisme without reading art. 12.

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  4. 04

    Certificat d’hébergement — longer stays, not nightly STR

    Separately from nightly police fiches, foreigners who cannot show owner/tenant status for stays over three months generally need a certificat d’hébergement from DSP (art. 12). MonServicePublic also describes a certificat d’hébergement pour séjour touristique used to support a French Schengen visa application for short tourist stays — that is a visa-support formality with French consular validation, not a substitute for arts. 9–10 guest reporting.

    [01][17]

Chapter · Contribution

Contribution touristique & fiscal tracks

Since Loi n° 1.548 (2023), Monaco levies a contribution touristique on non-domiciled adults in hotels and hotel residences — declared twice a year to the Direction des Services Fiscaux.

  1. 01

    Who pays — Loi 1.548 arts. 22–23

    The contribution is established on persons aged over eighteen, not domiciled in the Principality, and accommodated in a hotel or hotel residence in Monaco. Stays longer than ninety consecutive days are exempt. Group professional events may be partly or wholly exempted on the initiative of the Direction du Tourisme et des Congrès.

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  2. 02

    Rates — ministerial barème (AM 2024-72)

    Art. 24 caps the per-person per-night amount at €15 and requires annual fixation by arrêté ministériel with the list of covered establishments. Arrêté Ministériel n° 2024-72 du 5 février 2024 revised the 2023-754 schedule downward — typically €2 (2★), €3 (3★), €5 (4★) or €7 (5★) per person per night for listed hotels and hotel residences, plus a symbolic €1 line for certain complimentary promotional nights. Display the applicable amount in the establishment; DTC also makes amounts available on request.

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  3. 03

    Collection & remittance — arts. 25–26 + OS 10.280

    The establishment collects the contribution from liable guests and remains liable even if it failed to cash it (with a narrow sudden-departure path via DTC and a police complaint). Ordonnance Souveraine n° 10.280 requires an electronic declaration to the Direction des Services Fiscaux twice a year (1–10 August for H1; 1–10 February for H2) with night counts, rate, total due and exempt nights, accompanied by bank-transfer remittance on the same calendar.

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  4. 04

    Private apartments — do not invent the hotel levy

    Primary text ties the contribution to hotels and hotel residences. A private furnished apartment that is not on that establishment list is not automatically inside arts. 22–26. Confirm status before adding a “city tax” line to guest invoices. Economic activity, TVA under the Code des taxes sur le chiffre d’affaires, and DSP guest duties remain separate questions.

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Chapter · Not EU

Not EU, not Schengen party — France voisinage & Loi 1.565

Cite Monegasque statutes for lodging. France’s special relationship explains borders and visas; it does not import GDPR or Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 as Principality lodging law.

  1. 01

    Sovereign Principality — not an EU Member State

    Monaco is not listed as an EU Member State. Do not apply EU short-term rental data regulation duties, EU hotel-card templates, or Member-State municipal STR registration codes as if they were Monegasque law. The operative lodging duties are OS 3.153, Loi 1.144 / hotel classification texts, and Loi 1.548.

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  2. 02

    Not a Schengen party — France voisinage & customs union

    Monaco is not a Contracting Party to the Schengen Agreement. Primary bilateral framing is the Franco-Monegasque Convention de voisinage of 18 May 1963 (made exécutoire by Ordonnance Souveraine n° 3.039 du 19 août 1963) and the customs convention of the same date (OS n° 3.038). Those instruments align foreigner entry/stay controls with France and maintain the customs union — they explain why travel to Monaco is practically continuous with France, without making Monaco itself a Schengen member. Do not paste Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement art. 45 wording as a domestic Monegasque guest-card statute; OS 3.153 is the domestic text.

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  3. 03

    Loi n° 1.565 — domestic personal-data law

    Loi n° 1.565 du 3 décembre 2024 relative à la protection des données personnelles replaced Loi n° 1.165. It applies to automated and non-automated personal-data processing and creates the Autorité de Protection des Données Personnelles (APDP). Government materials describe alignment ambitions with high European standards and Convention 108+, including a hoped-for EU adequacy decision — that is policy context, not a statement that GDPR is Monegasque law. Guest names, document numbers and stay dates on police fiches are personal data: inform guests, secure processing, and limit retention to what OS 3.153 and legitimate purposes require.

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  4. 04

    GDPR & Reg (EU) 2024/1028 — contrast only

    Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 (short-term rental data sharing from 20 May 2026) bind EU Member States’ systems. Monaco is not an EU Member State: do not invent platform delisting duties or an EU single digital entry point here. Controllers who target EU residents may still face extraterritorial GDPR questions — that is separate from Principality lodging law.

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Remote arrival · Still the law

Self check-in under Monegasque rules

Remote arrival is common in a city-state of lifts and garages. Unverified arrival is the risk. OS 3.153 already assumes computerised fiches — it does not require a marble lobby, but it does require identity fields and DSP transmission.

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Document

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E.turistas

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Keys

  • Verification is the check-in

    Capture art. 9 fields (identity, travel document, room/unit, arrival/departure) and complete the DSP transmission path before door codes, lockboxes or smart locks release. A polished keybox does not replace the fiche.

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  • Every person accommodated

    Art. 9 speaks of toutes les personnes hébergées — not only the booking lead. Build multi-guest flows so accompanying adults are on the same computerised record set.

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  • Hotels and meublés share the reporting outcome

    Art. 9 hotels push sans délai fiches plus the 24-hour list; art. 10 landlords push same-day entry/departure fiches. Process design differs; DSP visibility of who stayed is the shared outcome.

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  • Respect art. 12 before you automate

    If the listing is a partial furnished unit, stays under one month collide with art. 12. Fix the product (whole unit, longer stay, or licensed hotel mode) before wiring self check-in.

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Quarters, tax & building layers

The Principality is one municipality for most lodging statutes — but Monte Carlo, La Condamine and Fontvieille still change guest expectations, access logistics and which hotel establishments sit on the contribution barème.

  • Casino de Monte-Carlo — hotel contribution territory

    Contribution touristique (hotels / résidences hôtelières)

    01

    Collect per Loi 1.548 from non-domiciled adults 18+; remit with the semi-annual DSF declaration under OS 10.280. Rates follow the current arrêté for your named establishment (AM 2024-72 revision). Exemptions: >90 consecutive nights; possible DTC group-event relief.

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  • Port Hercule in La Condamine

    La Condamine & Port Hercule

    02

    Harbour-side apartments and yacht-adjacent stays still sit under arts. 9–10 when they are lodging — maritime police formalities for vessels are a separate DSP track (not a substitute for land lodging fiches).

  • Monaco-Ville on the Rock — dense residential fabric

    Copropriété, bail & protected housing

    03

    Building regulations and lease clauses often restrict short lets even where OS 3.153 would otherwise allow a whole-unit meublé. State-protected housing sectors have their own declaration rules — confirm before listing. These private/sector constraints sit beside, not instead of, DSP guest duties.

This is the law · Here is the reference

Sources & references

Primary statutes, EU instruments and competent authorities. Open the link when your property is at stake.

  1. [01]Local law
    Ordonnance Souveraine n° 3.153 (19 mars 1964) — entrée et séjour des étrangers

    Primary Titre III Hébergement: arts. 9–12 guest fiches, registers, partial-let rule, certificat d’hébergement.

  2. [02]Local law
    Ordonnance Souveraine n° 1.091 (4 mai 2007)

    Replaced arts. 9–11 with the computerised fiche / 24-hour list / landlord register wording still consolidated in OS 3.153.

  3. [03]Local law
    Ordonnance Souveraine n° 2.802 (6 juillet 2010)

    Art. 12 rewrite: partial furnished lets only for stays >1 month; certificat d’hébergement for certain >3-month stays.

  4. [04]Local law
    Loi n° 1.548 (6 juillet 2023) — contribution touristique

    Chapter V creates the tourist contribution on non-domiciled adults 18+ in hotels and hotel residences.

  5. [05]Local law
    Ordonnance Souveraine n° 10.280 (20 décembre 2023)

    Semi-annual electronic declaration and remittance calendar for the contribution touristique to DSF.

  6. [06]Local law
    Arrêté Ministériel n° 2024-72 (5 février 2024)

    Revised per-establishment per-night contribution amounts (typically €2–€7 by star category).

  7. [07]Local law
    Arrêté Ministériel n° 2010-220 (28 avril 2010)

    Classification norms for hôtels de tourisme.

  8. [08]Local law
    Loi n° 1.144 (26 juillet 1991) — activités économiques et juridiques

    Primary statute for prior authorisation / declaration of many economic activities in Monaco.

  9. [09]Agency
    MonEntreprise — introduction à la création d’activité

    Official guidance: prior autorisation d’exercice for non-Monegasque commercial activity; criteria and Loi 1.144 reference.

  10. [10]Agency
    MonEntreprise — activités réglementées / soumises à autorisation

    Official inventory listing hôtelier — loueur de meublés among activities requiring authorisation.

  11. [11]Local law
    Loi n° 1.565 (3 décembre 2024) — protection des données personnelles

    Domestic personal-data statute replacing Loi 1.165; APDP framework for guest identity processing.

  12. [12]Authority
    Gouvernement Princier — sécurité numérique / Loi 1.565

    Official summary: Loi 1.565 succeeds Loi 1.165; APDP succeeds CCIN; alignment ambitions with European standards without making GDPR domestic law.

  13. [13]Authority
    Autorité de Protection des Données Personnelles (APDP)

    Monegasque data-protection authority under Loi 1.565.

  14. [14]Local law
    Ordonnance Souveraine n° 3.039 (19 août 1963)

    Makes the Franco-Monegasque Convention de voisinage of 18 May 1963 exécutoire in Monaco.

  15. [15]Local law
    Ordonnance Souveraine n° 3.038 (19 août 1963)

    Makes the Franco-Monegasque customs convention of 18 May 1963 exécutoire — customs union framing.

  16. [16]Agency
    Ambassade de Monaco en France — bilateral treaties with France

    Official treaty list including 1963 voisinage, customs and tax conventions.

  17. [17]Authority
    MonServicePublic — certificat d’hébergement pour séjour touristique

    DSP procedure for a hosting certificate used toward a French Schengen visa — distinct from arts. 9–10 nightly fiches.

  18. [18]Authority
    Direction des Services Fiscaux

    Tax authority receiving contribution touristique declarations and administering TVA / Code des taxes matters.

  19. [19]EU law
    GDPR — Regulation (EU) 2016/679

    EU personal-data regulation — contrast only; not Monegasque lodging law (see Loi 1.565).

  20. [20]EU law
    Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 — short-term rental data

    EU STR registration/data framework from 20 May 2026 — not Monegasque law; Monaco is not an EU Member State.

After the law · The product

Where NextStay fits

After the law is clear: we turn identity capture into the gate before access — so Monaco hotels and apartment operators can run discreet remote arrivals without skipping DSP-ready guest records.

  • 01

    Fiche fields before the key

    Online check-in collects the art. 9 identity and document details before door instructions unlock — matching the duty to establish the fiche at the guest’s venue.

  • 02

    Every adult on the reservation

    Structured flows push beyond a single booking name — the same shift OS 3.153 makes when it speaks of all persons accommodated.

  • 03

    Host visibility without lobby chaos

    Hotels and individual hosts see progress per reservation: who completed, who is blocked, and when access can release — useful when DSP transmission must still happen the same day.

  • 04

    Destination guidance in the workspace

    This dossier stays attached to the Principality you operate in — not a generic EU footnote that mislabels Monaco as Schengen or GDPR territory.

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