Collective Commentary about the New Package Travel Directive

90 COLLECTIVE COMMENTARY ABOUT THE NEW PACKAGE TRAVEL DIRECTIVE The rules listed by the article are practically all-inclusive: laws, regulations and administrative provisions of lower rank. Thus, it includes all rules deriving from the legislative power and those deriving from the executive. This is so because, in this regard, it must be recalled that the Directive imposes a duty on member states to achieve the aims that it sets out, but they are free to choose the technical legal means that they consider to be most suitable. As such, the list of the norms contained in the article is broad enough to ensure that there is no means of evading it. And what is the subject matter? There isn’t just one subject, but many, and these are the contracts between travellers and traders in relation to the two kinds of travel regulated by the Directive: package travel and linked travel arrangements, and the inclusion of the latter within the scope of application of the Directive is new. These are the contracts whose regulation needs to be harmonized: those related to package travel and those related to linked travel arrangements. These are defined in art. 3 (2), (3) and (5), which is specifically dedicated to defining the concepts covered by the Directive.