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7 Amendments of Spyros DANELLIS related to 2013/0246(COD)

Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a directive
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.
2013/12/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) stand-alone contracts for a single travel service.deleted
2013/12/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a directive
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.)
2013/12/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a directive
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.
2013/12/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a directive
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.
2013/12/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 246 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 a (new)
Article 17 a Information requirements for stand-alone travel services 1. Member States shall ensure that, before the traveller is bound by any contract or any corresponding offer from a trader selling stand-alone travel services, the trader shall state in a clear and prominent manner: (a) the main characteristics of the service, to the extent appropriate to the medium; (b) where the service sold concerns accommodation, the name and the tourist category of the accommodation, including the room category and its main characteristics; (c) the trading name, geographical address, telephone number and e-mail address of the retailer; (d) the total price of the service inclusive of taxes and, where applicable, of all additional fees, charges and other costs or, where those costs cannot reasonably be calculated in advance, the fact that the traveller may have to bear such additional costs and the manner in which the final price is to be calculated; (e) information on the method of calculating costs that cannot be given in advance, including on the eventual price increase after the conclusion of the contract; (f) the arrangements for payment and, where applicable, the existence and the conditions for deposits or other financial guarantees to be paid or provided by the traveller; (g) in case of transport services, general information on passport and visa requirements, including approximate periods for obtaining visas, applicable to the traveller in accordance to his nationality, and information on health formalities; (h) where necessary, information regarding possible risks at the place of destination or its immediate vicinity with regard to natural disasters, public health, public order, terrorism, etc.; (i) information on whether the traveller has a right of withdrawal from the contract and, in that case, the conditions, time-limits and procedures for exercising that right; (j) information on in-house complaint handling procedures and on the possibility and time-limits for having recourse to out-of-court complaint and redress mechanisms. 2. Member States shall ensure that traders selling stand-alone travel services provide the traveller with a confirmation of the booking of the purchased travel service without undue delay and not later than 24 hours following the booking, unless an immediate confirmation is necessary. 3. Member States shall ensure that providers of stand-alone travel services sold through an intermediary retailer provide all information that is necessary for the intermediary retailer to comply with the requirements set out in paragraph 1. 4. Member States shall ensure that intermediary retailers selling stand-alone travel services are liable for any errors occurring in the booking process.
2013/12/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 247 #
Proposal for a directive
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.
2013/12/20
Committee: TRAN