European Academy of the Urban Environment

The EU environmental noise directive (END)

Challenges and potential solutions

DRAFT PROGAMME

on: Friday, 9 December 2005
at:  Ljubljana

9:00

participants register

9:15

Welcome and opening of the conference
Radovan Tavzes, Director General, Environment Directorate, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning

9:30

The EU environmental noise directive - overall requirements
Christian Popp, Lärmkontor GmbH, Hamburg

09:50

Transposing END into national law - the present situation in Europe
Dr. Hanns-Uve Schwedler, European Academy of the Urban Environment, Berlin

10:10

Implementing END in Slovenia - challenges and success stories (working title)
Radovan Tavzes, Director General, Environment Directorate, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning

10:45

Coffee

11:15

'Sound City' - requirements and practical implementation of END using a fictitious case study example
Christian Popp, Lärmkontor GmbH

12:15

Noise mapping in Budapest 
Christian Popp, Lärmkontor GmbH

12:30

Lunch

13:45

Public information activities - experience and examples
Margit Bonacker, konsalt GmbH, consultancy, Hamburg

14:30

Transport planning in EU (working title)
speaker tbc

14:40

END and EU daughter directives on clean air - are synergies possible?
Dr. Hanns-Uve Schwedler, European Academy of the Urban Environment

15:00

Discussion in small groups (using the 'World café' approach*) on:
- challenges and problems in implementing END in Slovenia
- data capture and processing
- from noise mapping to noise mitigation - how should we proceed?
- public information and participation
- correlation between spatial plans, transport problems and the END action plan

17:00

Report back from discussion groups, final discussion

17:30

conference ends

*) the 'World Café' approach: small discussion groups sit or stand around tables ('bistro' type for standing - coffee available); participants at any group move on (separately) after approx. 20 mins. and, using as a basis the discussion of their 'predecessors' at the new table, discuss what is for the participants a new topic. At each table, a chair person continuously guides discussion at that table. The last group (according to the timetable) at each 'topic table' is tasked to bring together preceding discussion and thus to summarise the combined discussion at that table.


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