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Some EU Member States are late in implementing the new Timeshare Directive

Submitted by Michael Wukoschitz on 8 July, 2011 - 07:27

The deadline for EU Member States to enact legislation implementing the new EU Timeshare Directive expired on February 23, 2011. However, such legislation is still not in force in Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia and Spain.

European Court of Justice: Advocate General Sharpston delivers opinion on important air passenger rights issues

Submitted by Michael Wukoschitz on 29 June, 2011 - 08:28

In her opinion in case C- 83/10 (Sousa Rodríguez) delivered on June 28, 2011, ECJ Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston came to the conclusions that

EU: Consumer Rights Directive on the horizon

Submitted by Stephan Keiler on 19 June, 2011 - 12:37

The Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) of European Parliament adopted a compromise negotiated with the Council, after the draft has been returned to committee's charge by the Plenary in March.

EU: New rules to establish a more competitive rail market

Submitted by Michael Wukoschitz on 16 June, 2011 - 15:20

EU transport ministers reached an agreemnet today on new rules setting out how competition on the rail market must work in practice by:

ensuring fair access to rail infrastructure and rail-related services;
strengthening the power of national regulators; and
improving the framework for investment in rail.

The proposed directive aims to

UK: no exception to the exclusivity of the Montreal Convention with regard to disabled passengers

Submitted by Michael Wukoschitz on 27 May, 2011 - 13:34

The case Hook v British Airways concerns a flight from London to Paphos, Cyprus on 26 July 2008 and the return flight on 10 August 2008.

EU Commission publishes responses received on the ADR consultation including IFTTA paper

Submitted by Michael Wukoschitz on 24 May, 2011 - 15:35

The EU Commission has now published the responses received on the ADR consultation. The responses filed by experts include an IFTTA paper drafted by Larry Gore, Tom Marigiotti and John Downes. It is the second time that IFTTA participated in an EU legislative process. The commission also published a Feedback Statement to the responses received until the end of March 2011.

ECJ: advertising of entry-level prices for travel and tourist services admissible

Submitted by Michael Wukoschitz on 17 May, 2011 - 12:20

In the "Ving Sverige" Case (see IFTTA news of Feb 8, 2011), the ECJ has now decided that

Survey on the attitudes of Europeans towards tourism 2011

Submitted by Stephan Keiler on 17 May, 2011 - 08:04

Eurobarometer published a Survey on the attitudes of Europeans towards tourism based on fliedwork in Feb 2011.

A summary can be found here: Summary

The entire analytical report cam be found here: Report

European champion in traveling are the Finns!

Stephan

European Court of Justice: air carrier must reasonably take account of the risk of delay and provide for a certain reserve time

Submitted by Michael Wukoschitz on 12 May, 2011 - 12:08

Upon reference by the Augstākās Tiesas Senāts (Latvia), the ECJ has today intrepreted Reg. 261/2004 as follows:

EU: Commission updates list of air carriers subject to an operating ban

Submitted by Michael Wukoschitz on 21 April, 2011 - 07:46

The European Commission has adopted the 17th update of the list of airlines banned in the European Union. Some airlines – including four all-cargo air carriers from Indonesia and one air carrier from Ukraine – have been removed from the list as safety concerns have been satisfactorily addressed.

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