Translation of "Achat de billets à ordre " (French → English) :

10. Urges the Commission to extend its monitoring activity to the websites of companies and transport service providers so as to increase transparency for passengers, particularly regarding online ticket purchases, and to seek to prevent such websites from misleading consumers, for instance by banning the use of pre-ticked boxes or supplementary charges about which proper information is not given in advance; calls on the Commission to draw up guidelines including examples and evaluations of commercial practices, such as contractual terms relating to the transferability of tickets, force majeure, the prohibition on using tickets separate ...[+++]ly and mishandled, delayed or damaged luggage, thus informing both consumers and businesses about unfair contractual terms in the transport field;

98. Calls on the administration to evaluate developments in the low-cost travel market, to keep up to date with new developments in the market and to exploit any possibilities for savings; furthermore, calls on the administration to allow and encourage the use of low-cost air tickets and the purchase of flexible economy tickets; believes that further measures should be examined in order to reduce the number of business class flig ...[+++]hts purchased by Members;

Nor is it appropriate for it to apply to services where the transfer of funds from the payer to the payee or their transport is executed solely in bank notes and coins or where the transfer is based on a paper cheque, paper-based bill of exchange, promissory note or other instrument, paper-based vouchers or cards drawn upon a payment service provider or other party with a view to placing funds at the disposal of the payee.

bearer-negotiable instruments including monetary instruments in bearer form such as travellers cheques, negotiable instruments (including cheques, promissory notes and money orders) that are either in bearer form, endorsed without restriction, made out to a fictitious payee, or otherwise in such form that title thereto passes upon delivery and incomplete instruments (including cheques, promissory notes and money orders) signed, but with the payee's name omitted.

bearer negotiable instruments including monetary instruments in bearer form such as travellers cheques, negotiable instruments (including cheques, promissory notes and money orders) that are either in bearer form, endorsed without restriction, made out to a fictitious payee, or otherwise in such form that title thereto passes upon delivery and incomplete instruments (including cheques, promissory notes and money orders) signed, but with the payee's name omitted;

· It was clarified that the Regulation does not request personal appearance at the train station, so that e.g. a group of children does not have to come to the train station if their passports are shown when purchasing the ticket.