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The EU environmental noise directive. 
Challenges and potential solutions at local level

Jointly organised by the Ministry of Environment and Water, Hungary
and the European Academy of the Urban Environment, Berlin

Location: French Institute of Budapest (Institut Français),
Fö U. 17, 1011 Budapest

Date: 10 June 2004

held in: Hungarian and English

Programme

09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and opening of the conference
Zsuzsanna Bibók - Department for Air Quality and Noise Control, Ministry of Environment and Water, Hungary
Dr. Hanns-Uve Schwedler - European Academy of the Urban Environment (EA.UE), Berlin, Germany

10:00 - 10:45 'Sound City'
illustrating requirements in the environmental noise directive END, using this fictitious case study example of a development from a 'noisy' to a 'quiet' town or city
Christian Popp - LÄRMKONTOR GmbH, noise consultancy of Hamburg, Germany
followed by: questions / discussion

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee

11:15 - 12:00 The EU environmental noise directive
requirements contained in the END: noise mapping, noise action planning, public information and participation, submitting data to the Commission
Christian Popp - LÄRMKONTOR GmbH
followed by: questions / discussion

12:00 - 12:30 Noise mapping as exemplified by the 11th district of Budapest
Pal Bite - Vibrocomp Ltd., Budapest
followed by: questions / discussion

12:30 - 13:15 Lunch

13:15 - 14:15 Ascertaining noise nuisance / levels of noise pollution
Procedures to be used in determining noise nuisance in accordance with END, initial data required, presenting results
Edgar Wetzel - WÖLFEL Meßsysteme Software GmbH + Co., Germany
The Hungarian case
Sandor Hajdu - KTI, Budapest
followed by: questions / discussion

14:15 - 15:00 Sources of data and data capture
sources of data and procedures to acquire initial data for noise mapping which are not present, plus suggested substitute figures
Edgar Wetzel - WÖLFEL Meßsysteme Software GmbH + Co.
followed by: questions / discussion

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee

15:30 - 16:15 Public information activities
requirements in the END, methods and procedures, results
Margit Bonacker - konsalt GmbH, consultancy, Hamburg, Germany
followed by: questions / discussion

16:15 - 17:00 Concluding discussion and prospects/forward view

 

 

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