Noise

Existing directives relating to noise sources

Overview: report on existing Community measures relating to sources of noise COM(2004)160

Road traffic noise (follow-up by EC Directorate General Enterprise)

• Motor Vehicles - Directive 70/157/EEC
• Motor Cycles - Directive 97/24/EC
• Tyres for motor vehicles and their trailers and their fitting - Directive 2001/43/EC

Studies carried out on these Directives on behalf of DG ENTR can be seen below:

• Tyre/road noise report (2006) - part 1 and part 2
• Survey on motor vehicles tyres and related aspects (2004)
• Anti tampering devices of 2 and 3 wheeled motor vehicles (2003)
• Noise reduction measures in the road transport sector (2003)

Aircraft noise (follow-up by EC Directorate General Energy & Transport)

• Communication on air transport and environment (1999)
• Subsonic Aircraft - Directive 80/51/EEC
• Subsonic Jet Aeroplanes - Directive 89/629/EEC
• Limitation of the Operations of Aeroplanes - Directive 92/14/EEC
• Operating restrictions at Community airports - Directive 2002/30/EC and related Commission review (2006)
• Regulation of chapter 3 civil subsonic aeroplanes, Directive 2006/93/EC

For more information about these Directives, see here.

Studies carried out on these Directives on behalf of DG TREN can be seen here

Railway noise (follow-up by EC Directorate General Energy & Transport)

• Interoperability of the Trans-European high-speed rail system - Directive 96/48/EC
• Technical specification for interoperability (TSI) relating to high-speed rolling stock - Commission Decision 2002/735/EC
• Technical specification for interoperability (TSI) relating to high-speed railway infrastructures - Commission Decision 2002/732/EC
• Interoperability of the conventional Trans-European rail system - Directive 2001/16/EC
  • Commission Decision 2004/446/EC of 29 April 2004 specifying the basic parameters of the 'Noise', 'Freight Wagons' and 'Telematic applications for freight' Technical Specifications for Interoperability referred to in Directive 2001/16/EC (OJ L 193 p. 1)
  • Directive 2004/50/EC of 29 April 2004 amending Council Directive 96/48/EC and Directive 2001/16/EC (OJ L 164, 30.4.2004)
  • Commission Decision 2006/66/EC adopted on 23 December 2005 concerning the technical specification for interoperability relating to the subsystem "rolling stock - noise".

Noise from Equipment for Use Outdoors - 2000/14/EC (follow-up by EC Directorate General Enterprise)

All the useful information can be found on the following webpage: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/mechan_equipment/noise/index.htm

Miscellaneous

• Recreational craft - Directive 2003/44/EC (follow-up by EC Directorate General Enterprise)