Member States can provide for mechanisms ensuring refunds to travellers in accordance with the legal requirements, for cases where packages are cancelled due to unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances and where organisers are unable to comply with their refund obligations. In order to increase transparency, Member States that introduce or maintain such mechanisms should be obliged to inform the Commission and the central contact points of the other Member States about them. Such mechanisms are normally funded exclusively through contributions from organisers. Only in exceptional and duly justified circumstances can such mechanisms be co-financed by Member States, and their introduction is without prejudice to Union rules on State aid.
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