The Commission Green Paper of 1996 on Noise Policy highlighted the increase of noise pollution in urban areas. Some 20% of the population of Western Europe have to endure noise levels judged by the experts as unacceptable. While most external noise is caused by transport equipment, the extent of noise emissions as the result of the use of outdoor equipment is constantly increasing.<\/p>\n
Equipment used outdoors enjoys freedom of movement within the European Community. Community policy on the reduction of noise caused by this type of equipment consisted in adopting Directives laying down permissible noise emission levels, placing markings on the equipment indicating the guaranteed noise emission level or laying down noise test codes. This approach has resulted in the adoption of seven directives covering noise emissions by various types of construction plant and equipment as well as one directive on lawnmowers.<\/p>\n
The 9 Directives in this field have already undergone certain changes in line with technological progress. The Commission felt that it is now necessary to embark on a new adaptation and to extend the range of equipment covered by means of this framework Directive.<\/p>\n
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Noise emission by equipment used outdoors The European Union is creating a single framework to control noise emitted by equipment used outdoors. Directive 2000\/14\/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 May 2000 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the noise emission in the environment by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18582,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions\/18582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}