Article 4 Transparency of ownership links
As made
This article is satisfied where—
there is displayed on the front of the linked travel agent’s retail premises in a prominent position so that it may be easily read, the name of the travel agent and the name of the travel group of which the travel agent is part together with an explanation of the link between the travel agent and that travel group;
there is displayed on the front of every foreign package holiday brochure of the linked tour operator, available to consumers in the linked travel agent’s retail premises, in a prominent position so that it may easily be read, a notice stating the name of the travel agent together with an explanation of the link between the tour operator and the travel agent;
there is displayed in the linked travel agent’s retail premises in a prominent position so that it may easily be read by consumers in those premises, a notice which states the name under which the linked tour operator trades in foreign package holidays through linked travel agents, an explanation of the link between the tour operator and the travel agent and, where the condition specified in paragraph (b) is required to be satisfied, the fact that the brochures display the requisite notice;
there is stated in legible characters on all business stationery of the linked travel agent used for the purposes of the linked supply or offer to supply of foreign package holidays the name of the travel group of which the travel agent is part together with an explanation of the link between the travel agent and that travel group; and
all advertisements made on behalf of the linked travel agent or linked tour operator, which are connected with the linked supply or offer to supply of foreign package holidays and which refer to both the linked travel agent and tour operator, contain a statement explaining the link between them.
The conditions specified in sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (d) and (e) of paragraph (1) above do not apply where the name of the travel agent and the tour operator are the same or are so similar to each other that members of the public might reasonably conclude from that fact that the travel agent and tour operator are linked.
In this article “business stationery” means business letters, invoices and receipts issued in the course of business and written demands for payment of debts arising in the course of business which are used in respect of the linked supply or offer of supply of foreign package holidays to consumers.
In this article “name” means the name under which, as the case may be, the tour operator, travel agent or travel group, trade in the United Kingdom with consumers of foreign package holidays.