European Academy of the Urban Environment / Europaeische Akademie fuer staedtische Umwelt - Sustainable urban development / Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung

Noise policy is a cross-sectoral issue. As such it relates to many and various elements in EU environmental policy fields, in particular to regulations for improving air quality. This is why broadly-based and integrated approaches to solutions are required. Adoption of legislation in this field by candidate countries - as in EU member states - also requires implementation procedures in planning measures at regional and local level

A primary objective of this publication is to provide detailed information for candidate countries on integration at national, regional and local level with regard to current and future EU noise policies, and thus to facilitate the process of regional and local implementation of harmonised environmental legislation.
Insights into how current and future EU noise policy is developed or agreed are included as exemplified by the future EU directive for environmental noise and the new EU directive regarding equipment for use outdoors.
With a view to the harmonisation process of EU legislation at national level in candidate countries, principles and regulations in existing national noise policy are assessed and evaluated. Moreover, the publication addresses practical questions with regard to implementation of noise policies at local level as shown in candidate countries and in EU member states.

In the conclusions essential issues are raised; there is discussion on overcoming problems in the harmonisation process, with special emphasis placed on implementation of noise abatement concepts at local and regional level.

Lärmschutz ist ein querschnittsorientiertes Feld der Umweltpolitik. Er berührt verschiedenste Bereiche der EU-Gesetzgebung, insbesondere die Regularien zur Luftreinhaltung. Deshalb sind breit angelegte und integrierte Lösungsansätze erforderlich. Die Beitrittsstaaten müssen - wie die Mitgliedsländer der EU - im Zuge der Angleichung ihrer Gesetzgebung an EU-Standards ebenfalls Verfahren zur Umsetzung von Maßnahmekonzepten auf regionaler und lokaler Ebene entwickeln.

Ziel dieser Veröffentlichung ist es, in den Beitrittsländern auf die nationale, regionale und lokale Integration der gegenwärtigen und der zukünftigen EU-Lärmschutzpolitik aufmerksam zu machen und damit zur Erleichterung des Umsetzungsprozesses beizutragen.

Beispielhaft werden der Entwicklungs- und Abstimmungsprozeß der zukünftigen EU-Richtlinie über Umweltlärm und die neue Richtlinie über umweltbelastende Geräuschemissionen von zur Verwendung im Freien vorgesehener Geräte und Maschinen dargelegt.

Hinsichtlich der Übernahme der EU-Gesetzgebung werden die gegenwärtigen nationalen Lärmschutzpolitiken in den Beitrittsländern dargestellt und ausgewertet. Ferner werden in der Publikation praktische Umsetzungen auf der lokalen Ebene und die daraus resultierenden Probleme anhand von Beispielen aus West- und Osteuropa vorgestellt.

In den Schlußfolgerungen werden wesentliche Aspekte zur Verbesserung des Angleichungsprozesses, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Umsetzung von Lärmminderungskonzepten auf regionaler und lokaler Ebene, erörtert.

Maria Krautzberger, Deputy Minister for Urban Development of the Federal State of Berlin

Endre Kovács, Deputy Head of Department for Integrated Pollution Control of the Hungarian Ministry for Environment

Conclusions: ways to facilitate the harmonisation and implementation of current and future EU noise policy at national, regional and local level in candidate countries
Christoph Rau

Part 2 - Future EU noise policy and perspectives for national policies in candidate countries

Adaptation of EU legislation to national law
Martin Schulte and Rainer Schröder

Part 3 - Noise abatement policy in the European Union and in the EU candidate countries at local level

Berlin pilot noise abatement project - implementation, results and prospects
Horst Wohlfarth von Alm

Noise abatement by means of traffic calming – as exemplified by the Berlin District of Tiergarten
Johann Schilcher

Noise policy in Hungary as exemplified by Budapest and Miskolc
Maria Bite, KTI, Budapest

Noise mapping in Poland as exemplified by Warsaw
Jacek Skorupski and Marcin Świetlik

Noise policy in the Czech Republic as exemplified by Brno
Zdenka Samankova and Miroslav Stanĕk

Noise policy in Estonia as exemplified by Tallinn
Piret Kiiss, Madis Kõrvits and Linda Madalik

Part 4 - Current and future EU directives for noise policy relevant for the candidate countries

Introduction to the EU directive 2000/14/EC: the process of development and agreement
Volker K. P. Irmer

UK transposition of directive 2000/14/EC relating to the noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors
Karen Taylor

Indicators, computation and measurement in the proposal for a future EU directive on environmental noise
Ian Flindell

Noise mapping and noise abatement in the proposal for a future EU directive on environmental noise
John Hinton

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