Communications
Following today’s Plenary vote on the Package Travel Directive (PTD) revision, ECTAA acknowledges progress made but warns that key concerns remain. The association highlights the risk of Single Market fragmentation through diverging prepayment rules and cautions that the new 24-hour definition could create confusion for both consumers and businesses. ECTAA calls on trilogue negotiators to address these issues and ensure a balanced framework that provides strong traveller protection without overburdening SMEs.
July 2025 BUSINESSES NEED GOOD LEGISLATION IN THE EU: THE CURRENT GREEN CLAIMS DIRECTIVE MISSES THE MARK
2 July 2025 As companies that are taking sustainability seriously, we are in favour of rules to tackle greenwashing. In today’s global challenges, companies need good legislation that is workable, predictable and harmonised for all parties. In its current form, the Green Claims Directive does not meet those objectives. It fails to solve the many shortcomings we have been raising for all companies, not only microenterprises. It will discourage companies from communicating legitimate sustainability efforts (greenhushing), diverting critical resources from sustainability innovation to compliance. This undermines the EU's competitiveness and simplification agenda and goals of fostering consumer information. Given the current context, we urge policymakers to oppose the proposal in its current form.
Recognising that tourism has been “badly hit” by the COVID-19 crisis, ECTAA is pleased to see that Tourism Ministers are eager to use the EU Recovery Fund for tourism. ECTAA also welcomes their support for a “harmonized solution” for refunding travel packages, including vouchers (link).