Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:1997:588
Date: 1997-12-04
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Consumer protection;Approximation of laws
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Austria

Summary of the Judgment
Approximation of laws — Package travel, package holidays and package tours — Directive
90/314 — Protection against the risk of the organiser's insolvency — Extent
(Council Directive 90/314, Art. 7)
Article 7 of Directive 90/314 on package
travel, package holidays and package tours is
to be interpreted as covering, as security for
the refund of money paid over, a situation in
which the purchaser of a package holiday
who has paid the travel organiser for the
costs of his accommodation before travelling
on his holiday is compelled, following the
travel organiser's insolvency, to pay the
hotelier for his accommodation again in
order to be able to leave the hotel and return
home.
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