Engineering measures
Legal measures
- Defining limit or guide values for exposure levels for day-and night-time, and agreeing criteria for measuring noise.
- Provision of noise zones along traffic routes and around airports and industrial installations (eg, in The Netherlands).
- Developing regulations for composite noise situations (for where noise comes from more than one source).
- Controlling noise emissions at source for transport vehicles (eg, EC Directives on road vehicles, subsonic jet airliners, motorcycles).
- Legal specification of maximum noise emissions from products (eg, EC Directives on construction plants and equipment, lawn mowers); establishing appropriate frameworks for measuring noise (eg, labelling products such as spare car components with noise levels, and so on).
- Minimum requirements for acoustic properties of dwellings, normally part of national building codes (eg, specifications of sound insulation of facades, roofs etc); sound-classified dwellings.
- Vesting power in local authorities to control recreational noise through licensing (eg, for rock venues).
- Speed limits (eg, for freight transit across Austria).
- Quick and efficient enforcement of existing regulations.
Education and Information
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