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EU activities in the field of Aviation Noise
Ronny Rohart
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Article 6 of the Treaty integration of
environmental protection in all Community Policies
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• Commission White Paper 2001
• air transport largest increase of all transport
  modes over last 2 decades
• environmental impact bound to increase?
• importance of air transport for the economies of
  the EU
• long term trend

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• Commission Communication on Air Transport and the
  Environment 1999
• better integration of environmental requirements
• improved internationally agreed standards
• accelerated introduction of environmentally
  friendly technologies
• reward the best and punish the worst

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• International context
• Compatibility with ICAO rules required
• Puts constraints on EU legislation
• New possibilities following the adoption of
  Resolution A33-7
• airport-by-airport rules approach
• balanced approach

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• EU Directive on the introduction of noise-related
  operating restrictions (2002/30/EC)
• Implements the new balanced approach
• Harmonizes the decision process
• Imposes an obligatory noise assessment process
  before implementing operating restrictions
• Does not impose limit noise emission values

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• EU Directive on the introduction of noise-related
  operating restrictions (2002/30/EC)
• Strict definition of operating restrictions
• Definition of marginally noise compliant
  airplanes
• airplanes with a cumulative margin of no
  more than 5 decibels in relation to Chapter 3
  definition
• Applicable to airports with more than 50 000
  movements per year
• Special category City Airports

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• Monitoring Noise (1)
• Directive relating to the assessment and
  management of environmental noise (2002/49/EC)
• Deals with all modes of transport
• Seeks to harmonize noise indicators and
  assessment methods for environmental noise
• Seeks to collect information on noise exposure
  in the form of noise maps
• Aims to make information available to the public
• Applicable to airports which have more than 50
  000 movements per year

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• Monitoring Noise (2)
• By 30 June 2007 Member States have to prepare
  noise maps
• By July 2008 Member States must have drawn up
  action plans to manage noise issues and
  effects

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• Further thoughts
• Land-use planning
• - no EU competence
• - formulation of common guidelines on land use
  control measures
• Differentiation of airport charges
• - European Commission launched in 1990 and in
  1997 proposals establishing common
  principles for setting airport charges
  but were withdrawn because of lack of
  interest from Member States
• - Possibility of new formal proposal on airport
  charges in the context of a horizontal
  approach to infrastructure charging for all
  modes of transport