LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR LANGUAGE TRAVEL PROVIDERS 3. DIFFERENT RULES IN THE EU MEMBER STATES There are differences in the EU Member States. 3.1. Germany In Germany package travel law is definitely “not capable of analogy,” which means combinations of services which do not constitute travel packages, may not be voluntarily submitted under travel package law. Same applies for single services. For example, it may justify a legal notice if individual services (for instance “flight only”, “accommodation only”) are being sold as a travel package. This means that most of the inbound business of the language travel industry cannot be covered by the package travel law as far as they are merely offering “course only”, which is frequently the case. 3.2. Spain and Italy Same applies in Spain and Italy. 3.3. Belgium and France But in Belgium or France the respective legislators have made use of the option to subject sale of individual services to the provisions of the Travel Package Directive which the EU legislator left up to the Member States. This option does not exist in many other European countries such as Germany. Therefore, it is necessary to add additional clauses to General terms and conditions in individual countries working on international contract projects. 4. PRODUCT AND SERVICE COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE TRAVEL PROVIDERS Before we go deeper into classifying the service components of language travel providers let us see what kind of programs language travel providers sell and what service components are included. Between others they sell language- -travel-programs, work-and-travel-programs, GAP-year-programs, internships, host school stays. Most programs come as a combination which clearly is not package travel. We will concentrate on the language-travel-programs because this are the most controversial.
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