European legislation governs the laws and obligations resulting from contracts for the purchase of timeshare and similar products. This harmonisation aims at further protecting European consumers, including in the case of some contracts with an international scope.

Act

Directive 2008/122/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009 on the protection of consumers in respect of certain aspects of timeshare, long-term holiday product, resale and exchange contracts (Text with EEA relevance).

Summary

On 28 May 2015 the EU Council backed the new Package Travel Directive, bringing it up to date with the developments in the travel market. Following publication in the EU's Official Journal in the autumn 2015, Member States will have two years to implement the new rules and traders a further period of 6 months to adapt to the new rules.

Scope of the Directive

The Tourism Task Force of the EP’s Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) has a mandate to:

• monitor and follow actions started by the Commission which are related with Tourism;
• involve various stakeholders of the sector to propose concrete measures to be suggested to the Commission;
• highlight certain political priorities related to Tourism;
• study the possibility of setting-up a budget line for Tourism.

Chair : Michael Cramer (Germany)

Vice-Chair: Istvan Ujhelyi (Hungary)

EU Tourism Stakeholders fall into 3 categories : Tourism Industry, Transport and Civil Society. Here below is a non-exhaustive listing of stakeholders at both EU and International level.

Based on EC Public Consultation December 2013  thru March 2014

 EU Level Regulatory and Administrative Framework Affecting Tourism

Nel 2013 il settore Turismo è stato trasferito dalla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri al Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali, che ha assunto la denominazione di Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo.

Il Governo sta lavorando a un decreto sul turismo che avrà come punti essenziali la promozione unica dell'Italia all'estero, superando la frammentazione regionalistica.

The Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs is responsible for the coordination of Danish tourism policy, international policy tasks related to the EU, etc. The ministry co-operates with a number of other Danish authorities, for instance the Ministry of the Environment, including the Danish Forest and Nature Agency (Naturstyrelsen) and the Agency for Spatial and Environmental Planning (By- og Landskabsstyrelsen).

Tourism policy remains within the purview of the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology and remains as part of the overall economic policy of Slovenia. Administrative and legislative issues concerning tourism are delivered to the Tourism and Internationalization Directorate.

The Directorate is divided into two divisions:

The administrative authority at the central level in the field of tourism functions under the Ministry of Economy: the Department for Small and Medium Enterprises, Business Environment and Tourism which coordinates the National Authority for Tourism (ANT).

The Ministry of Economics has the function of the National Tourism Administration in Latvia. The main functions are: