Implementation of EU Directive in Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements in European National Legislations

 Law in the process of globalisation (2018), (str. 221-237) 

AUTOR: Dragan Vujisic

E-ADRESA: dvujisic@jura.kg.ac.rs

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DOI: 10.46793/LawPG.221V

SAŽETAK:

On the 25th of November 2015 the new Directive on package travel and linked travel arrangements was enacted. This Directive clarifies previous Directive on package travel, package holidays and package tours (1990), and adjusts it to the legal and market development. The new Directive introduced significant changes in the legal regulation of organized travel arrangements. The subject of this paper is analysis of the changes regarding the concept of the package travel and linked travel arrangement. At the beginning, the definitions and solutions from the new Directive on the concept of the package travel and linked travel arrangement were presented. Afterwards, the author presents current state of legislation with respect to the concept of the package travel in many European Union member states. Finally, the author presents the state of legislation in the Serbian law on the issue which is subject of the paper. The aim of this paper is determination which steps EU member states, and states which are approaching to the European Union (such as Serbia) should conduct in order to harmonize national legislations with the changes occurred after enactment of the Directive on package travel and linked travel arrangements.

KLJUČNE REČI:

package travel, linked travel arrangement, Directive on package travel and linked travel arrangements, transport, accommodation.

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