Traduction de «Voyage ferroviaire à forfait » (Français → Anglais) :

‘package travel contract’ means a contract on the package as a whole or, if the package is provided under separate contracts, all contracts covering travel services included in the package.

The temporary exemption should, however, not apply to the provisions of this Regulation that grant disabled persons or persons with reduced mobility access to travel by rail, nor to the right of those wishing to purchase tickets for travel by rail to do so without undue difficulty, nor to the provisions on railway undertakings’ liability in respect of passengers and their luggage, the requirement that undertakings be adequately insured, and the requirement that those undertakings take adequate measures to ensure passengers’ personal security in railway stations and on trains and to manage risk.

At unmanned stations, railway undertakings must make every reasonable effort to give disabled people and persons with reduced mobility access to travel by rail.

Your rapporteur is extending the scope of this regulation to all rail passengers and journeys.

Most information must be provided before the journey, because after the journey passengers will proceed to their destination as quickly as possible, particularly after experiencing a delay, when they may therefore have complaints to make. For passengers, all information about intermodal options upon arrival will be a plus, which will encourage passengers to travel by train.

1. This Regulation applies to passengers departing from an airport located in the territory of a Member State to which the Treaty applies, and to passengers having a contract with a Community carrier or with a tour operator for a package offered for sale in the territory of the Community departing from an airport located in a third country to one situated in the territory of a Member State to which the Treaty applies, unless they benefit from compensation and assistance in that third country, when they: