Collective Commentary about the New Package Travel Directive

COUNCIL DIRECTIVE OF 13 JUNE 1990 1233 2. ‘organizer’ means the person who, other than occasionally, organizes packages and sells or offers them for sale, whether directly or through a retailer; 3. ‘retailer’ means the person who sells or offers for sale the package put together by the organizer; 4. ‘consumer’ means the person who takes or agrees to take the package (‘the principal contractor’), or any person on whose behalf the principal contractor agrees to purchase the package (‘the other beneficiaries’) or any person to whom the principal contractor or any of the other beneficiaries transfers the package (‘the transferee’); 5. ‘contract’ means the agreement linking the consumer to the organizer and/or the retailer. Article 3 1. Any descriptive matter concerning a package and supplied by the organizer or the retailer to the consumer, the price of the package and any other conditions applying to the contract must not contain any misleading information. 2. When a brochure is made available to the consumer, it shall indicate in a legible, comprehensible and accurate manner both the price and adequate information concerning: (a) the destination and the means, characteristics and categories of transport used; (b) the type of accommodation, its location, category or degree of comfort and its main features, its approval and tourist classification under the rules of the host Member State concerned; (c) the meal plan; (d) the itinerary; (e) general information on passport and visa requirements for nationals of the Member State or States concerned and health formalities required for the journey and the stay; (f ) either the monetary amount or the percentage of the price which is to be paid on account, and the timetable for payment of the balance; (g) whether a minimum number of persons is required for the package to take place and, if so, the deadline for informing the consumer in the event of cancellation. The particulars contained in the brochure are binding on the organizer or retailer, unless: