Collective Commentary about the New Package Travel Directive

1310 COLLECTIVE COMMENTARY ABOUT THE NEW PACKAGE TRAVEL DIRECTIVE (14) ‘minor’ means a person below the age of 18 years; (15) ‘point of sale’ means any retail premises, whether movable or immovable, or a retail website or similar online sales facility, including where retail websites or online sales facilities are presented to travellers as a single facility, including a telephone service; (16) ‘repatriation’ means the traveller’s return to the place of departure or to another place the contracting parties agree upon. Article 4 Level of harmonisation Unless otherwise provided for in this Directive, Member States shall not maintain or introduce, in their national law, provisions diverging from those laid down in this Directive, including more or less stringent provisions which would ensure a different level of traveller protection. CHAPTER II INFORMATION OBLIGATIONS AND CONTENT OF THE PACKAGE TRAVEL CONTRACT Article 5 Pre-contractual information 1. Member States shall ensure that, before the traveller is bound by any package travel contract or any corresponding offer, the organiser and, where the package is sold through a retailer, also the retailer shall provide the traveller with the standard information by means of the relevant form as set out in Part A or Part B of Annex I, and, where applicable to the package, with the following information: (a) the main characteristics of the travel services: (i) the travel destination(s), itinerary and periods of stay, with dates and, where accommodation is included, the number of nights included; (ii) the means, characteristics and categories of transport, the points, dates and time of departure and return, the duration and places of intermediate stops and transport connections.