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Adopted text, 12 March 2026

Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects

Document TA-10-2026-0085 · P10_TA(2026)0085 · PE768.075

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Parliament's amended version of the proposed directive amending Directive (EU) 2015/2302 on package travel and linked travel arrangements. It updates rules to strengthen traveller protection and simplify certain aspects. The text lays down revised rules on insolvency protection, pre-contractual information, and liability for package travel, aiming to make protections more effective and clarify obligations for traders.

Key points

  1. Requires organisers and traders to provide clearer pre-contractual information, including on essential characteristics and prices, to help travellers make informed choices.
  2. Strengthens insolvency protection requirements, ensuring travellers are effectively protected if the organiser or retailer becomes insolvent, including for linked travel arrangements.
  3. Clarifies liability rules for package travel, specifying that organisers are responsible for the performance of travel services and must provide assistance to travellers in difficulty.
  4. Sets out rules on price revisions, allowing increases only under specific conditions and requiring decreases to be passed on to travellers.
  5. Defines circumstances under which travellers may terminate a package travel contract without paying a termination fee, including unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances.
  6. Requires member states to ensure effective enforcement of the directive, including through adequate penalties for infringements.

Who is affected

  • Travellers buying package travel or linked travel arrangements, who gain clearer information and stronger protection in case of insolvency.
  • Organisers, retailers and traders offering package travel, who face updated obligations on information, liability and insolvency protection.
  • Member states, which must enforce the new rules and apply penalties for non-compliance.

Legal basis. Article 294(2) and Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

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Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

European Parliament legislative resolution of 12 March 2026 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2015/2302 to make the protection of travellers more effective and to simplify and clarify certain aspects of the Directive (COM(2023)0905 – C9-0436/2023 – 2023/0435(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

–having regard to the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2023)0905),

–having regard to Article 294(2) and Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C9-0436/2023),

–having regard to Article 294(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

–having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 24 April 2024,

–having regard to the provisional agreement approved by the committee responsible under Rule 75(4) of its Rules of Procedure and the undertaking given by the Council representative by letter of 19 December 2025 to approve that position, in accordance with Article 294(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

–having regard to Rule 60 of its Rules of Procedure,

–having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism,

–having regard to the report of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (A10-0140/2025),

Read the rest (6 paragraphs)

1.Adopts its position at first reading hereinafter set out;

2.Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it replaces, substantially amends or intends to substantially amend its proposal;

3.Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.

P10_TC1-COD(2023)0435

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 12 March 2026 with a view to the adoption of Directive (EU) 2026/… of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2015/2302 to make the protection of travellers more effective and to simplify and clarify certain aspects of that Directive

(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position corresponds to the final legislative act, Directive (EU) 2026/1024.)