Parties may reproduce definitions and meanings contained in Directive 95/46/EC within this Clause if they considered it better for the contract to stand alone.

12. Takes the view that passengers’ rights and passenger service must be adapted to changes in patterns of travel, and draws particular attention in this regard to the new challenges posed by intermodal travel and the associated information and reservation systems for both passengers and travel companies; underlines the need to adapt travellers’ rights and operators’ obligations, inter alia in the field of package travel, to reflect the current state of affairs, and calls on the Commission speedily to put forward a revised proposal to remedy, as a matter of priority, the current shortcomings affecting the scope of rules, the online sale of travel packages and abusive clauses in contra ...[+++]cts;

5. Is alarmed that the Commission’s draft mandate for investment negotiations with India, and in particular its narrow objective, the wide definition of the term investment, the unspecified use of protection standards, the inclusion of an umbrella clause, the silence on social and environmental standards and the narrow changes proposed for the dispute settlement regime go against the Parliament’s resolution on the future EU investment policy, which has called for corporate social responsibility as a core element of any investment chap ...[+++]ter, for clear definitions of the terms investor and investor protection standards, for an assessment of the umbrella clause and for changing dispute settlement regimes so that parties have the opportunity to appeal, investors have to exhaust local judicial remedies and affected third parties have the possibility to use amicus curiae briefs;

(14) The implementation of the bilateral safeguard clause of the Agreement req uires that uniform conditions for the adoption of provisional and definitive safeguard measures, for the imposition of surveillance measures, and for the termination of an investigation and a proceeding without measures, should be adopted by the Commission.

The force majeure clause should be reconsidered in relation to the right to choose whether to continue the journey or abandon it and obtain a refund of the fare in the event of a delay resulting in a missed connection or in the event of the cancellation or anticipated cancellation of a train.

If we maintain this clause, there will be no change in real freight volumes; instead the transit journeys which are no longer possible will be replaced by a journey using one haulier into Austria, transhipment and a journey using another haulier out of Austria.