This Regulation establishes common minimum rules applicable where passengers are denied access to an overbooked scheduled flight for which they have a valid ticket and a confirmed reservation departing from an airport located in the territory of a Member State to which the Treaty applies, irrespective of the State where the air carrier is established, the nationality of the passenger and the point of destination.
Ta uredba vzpostavlja skupna minimalna pravila, ki veljajo, kadar je potnikom zavrnjen dostop do rednega leta s prevelikim številom rezervacij, za katerega imajo veljavno vozovnico in potrjeno rezervacijo, z odletom z letališča, ki se nahaja na ozemlju države članice, za katero velja Pogodba, ne glede na državo, kjer ima letalski prevoznik sedež, državljanstvo potnika in namembni kraj.