Collective Commentary about the New Package Travel Directive

Vincenzo Franceschelli Carlos Torres 1. Definitions; 1.1. The Imperative Force of a Definition; 1.2. Preambles, Recitals and Definitions in EU Law; 1.3. Definitions in EU Law; 1.4. Definitions, Tourism and Directives; 2. Tourism from 1990 to 2015; 2.1. Tourism and Definitions in the 1990 and in the 2015 Directives; 2.2. Comparing Definitions; 2.3. Clear and Obscure Definition; 3. The Directive 2015/2302/EU on package travel and linked travel arrangements; 4. The Definitions on the NPTD; 4.1. Definition (1) – Travel service; 4.1.1. Travel services: the rental of cars or other motor vehicles on the same plan as transport or accommodation services; 4.2. Definition (2) – Package; 4.2.1. Expansion of the concept of package travel and its structural traits; 4.3. Definition (3) – Package Travel Contract; 4.4. Travel Service, Package and Package Travel Contract; 4.5. Definition (4) – Start of the Package; 4.6. Definition (5) – Linked Travel Arrangement; 4.6.1. The new category of linked travel arrangement; 4.7. Negative delimitation of the concept of package travel and linked travel arrangements; 4.8. The Contract: fromTravel Agents Contracts to Internet made Contracts – combined analysis of the first five definitions; 4.9. Definition (6) – Traveller; 4.9.1. From consumers to travellers; 4.10. Tourist, Consumer and Traveller; 4.11. Definition (7) – Trader; 4.11.1. Going from the duality of organising agency / sales agency to a multiplicity of operators; 4.12. Definition (8) – Organiser; 4.13. Definition (9) – Retailer; 4.14. Definition (10) – Establishment; 4.15. Definition (11) – Durable medium; 4.16. Trader, Organiser, Retailer and Establishment; the Market: from Travel Agents to Internet; 4.17. Definition (12) – Unavoidable and Extraordinary Circumstances; 4.18. Definition (13) – Lack of Conformity; 4.19. Definition (14) – Minor; 4.20. Definition (15) –Point of sale; 4.21. Definition (16) –Repatriation; 5. Conclusion. 1. DEFINITIONS Law does not like definitions. In the Italian Civil Code, for example, it is not possible to find a definition of marriage, a definition of property or a definition of obligation.