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The END gives a common approach intended to avoid, prevent or reduce the harmful effects of environmental noise. The main target is an integrated noise management. In the first step the competent authorities in the European member states had to produce strategic noise maps for major roads, railways, airports and agglomerations. The second step ...
The Environmental Noise Directive (END) was created in the European Union to provide guidelines, laws, and standards in the management of environmental noise. The END has created noise mapping, noise action plans, and quiet areas to control environmental noise and the negative effects it can have on individuals. [22]
The END defines in Article 3: [1] "noise indicator shall mean a physical scale for the description of environmental noise, which has a relationship with a harmful effect; strategic noise map shall mean a map designed for the global assessment of noise exposure in a given area due to different noise sources or for overall predictions for such an ...
In 1995, the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region released guidelines on regulating community noise. [12] The WHO European Region subsequently released other versions of the guidelines, with the most recent version circulated in 2018. [ 121 ]
Bruitparif is a non-profit organisation accredited by the région Île-de-France, and the Ministry of Environment to monitor the environmental noise in Île-de-France. Its missions meet a regulatory requirement and come in three functions: Measurements and assessments; Support to public policies; Awareness actions
Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty; Convention for Co-operation in the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the West and Central African Region, Abidjan, 198; Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, Cartagena de Indias, 1983
This list of European Union Directives is ordered by theme to follow EU law. For a date based list, see the Category:European Union directives by number. From 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2014, numbers assigned by the General Secretariat of the Council followed adoption, for instance: Directive 2010/75/EU. [1]
While this circumstance is the most dramatic, there are many other work environments where sound levels may lie in the range of 70 to 75 decibels, entirely composed of office equipment, music, public address systems, and even exterior noise intrusion. Either type of environment may result in noise health effects if the sound intensity and ...