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An overview of the EU environmental noise directive
Tom Brodowski
EU directive finally becomes law
One of the most important mile-stone in EU noise legislation was reached on 25 June 2002, eight years after the initial suggestions, with the publication of the EU Directive (2002/49/EC) on the assessment and management of environmental noise. For the purposes of this Directive "environmental noise" means unwanted or harmful outdoor sound created by human activities, including noise emitted by means of transport, road traffic, rail traffic, air traffic, and from sites of industrial activity.
Road traffic
Rail traffic - Local trains
Rail traffic - High-speed trains
Air traffic
Industrial activities
The directive was one of the end results of the 1996 Green Paper on the Future Noise Policy, in which the European Commission developed the idea of a new framework for a noise policy based on a study that showed an estimated 20% of EU citizens were exposed to unacceptable noise levels. I presented an overview of the Green Paper at an international meeting of science entitled "Humanization of Technology" which took place at the Technical University of Vilnius in September 2001. You can find a text of this paper in both Polish and English in the latest edition of "Technika i Nauka" i Gospodarka?
The subject of the Directive is "the assessment and management of environmental noise", on which the European Commission has compiled and agreed 16 clauses of preamble, 16 Articles and 6 Annexes. "Assessment" means any method used to calculate, predict, estimate or measure the value of a noise indicator or the related human effects. (I'll come back to a noise indicator later in my report).
