7 Amendments of Spyros DANELLIS related to 2013/0246(COD)
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. This Directive shall apply to packages offered for sale or sold by traders to travellers, with the exception of Article 17, and to assisted travel arrangements with the exception of Articles 4 to 14, Articles 18 and Article 21(1), under the conditions and to the extent set out in its respective provisions, to packages offered for sale or sold by traders to travellers, assisted travel arrangements and stand- alone travel services.
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point e
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point 5 – introductory part
Article 3 – point 5 – introductory part
(5) ‘assistlinked travel arrangement’ means a combination of at least two different types of travel services for the purpose of the same trip or holiday, not constituting a package, resulting in the conclusion of separate contracts with the individual travel service providers, if a retailer facilitates the combination: (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that the traveller may terminate the contract before the start of the package against payment of an appropriate compensation to the organiser. The contract may specify reasonable standardised termination fees based on the time of the termination and the customary cost savings and income from alternative deployment of the travel services. In the absence of standardised termination fees, the amount of the compensation shall correspond to the price of the package minus the expenses proved to have been saved by the organiser which cannot be recuperated from the service providers or through alternative deployment of the services. Fees due for the termination of the contract, including administrative fees, shall not be disproportionate nor excessive. The organiser shall provide a statement of reasons for the calculation of the amount of the compensation or the standardised termination fees.
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States shall allow organisers of packages, retailers facilitating the procurement of assisted travel arrangements and passenger carriers established outside of their territory or outside the Union to obtain insolvency protection under their national insolvency protection schemes.
Amendment 246 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 a (new)
Article 17 a (new)
Amendment 247 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 c (new)
Article 18 c (new)
Article 18 c Right of withdrawal 1. Member States shall ensure that the traveller has a period of 24 hours to withdraw from a distance contract for a package, assisted-travel arrangement or stand-alone travel service, and seven days to withdraw from an off-premises contract, without giving any reason and without incurring any costs, provided that he gives the trader a notice on a durable medium at least 48 hours before the start of the travel service. 2. The trader shall reimburse all payments received from the traveller, without undue delay and not later than 14 days from the day on which he is informed of the traveller's decision to withdraw from the contract. 3. If the trader has not provided the traveller with information on the right of withdrawal in a clear and prominent manner, the traveller shall have the right to terminate the contract without penalty. 4. Member States shall ensure that an intermediary retailer is entitled to recuperate all payments made to a service provider in the period between the conclusion of the contract and the day on which he was informed of the traveller's decision to withdraw from the contract.