{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2015-2302/article-16",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2015/2302",
  "legislation_title": "Directive (EU) 2015/2302 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on package travel and linked travel arrangements, amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 90/314/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2015-2302",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Obligation to provide assistance",
  "text": "Member States shall ensure that the organiser gives appropriate assistance without undue delay to the traveller in difficulty, including in the circumstances referred to in Article 13(7), in particular by:\n(a) providing appropriate information on health services, local authorities and consular assistance; and\n(b) assisting the traveller to make distance communications and helping the traveller to find alternative travel arrangements.\nThe organiser shall be able to charge a reasonable fee for such assistance if the difficulty is caused intentionally by the traveller or through the traveller's negligence. That fee shall not in any event exceed the actual costs incurred by the organiser.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2015/2302/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:36.556108+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}