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Noise data reported under Environmental Noise Directive (END)

The datasets includes 1) the noise exposure data, 2) the noise contours data, 3) razterized noise contours data and 4) potential quiet areas all under the terms of the Environmental Noise Directive (END). Data covers the EEA32 member countries and the United Kingdom (excluding Turkey for the third round of noise mapping in 2017).

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2026-03-19
Citation identifier
eea_noise-contours_s

Citation identifier
DAT-152-en

Citation identifier
DAT-210-en

Citation identifier
DAT-209-en

Spatial representation type
Grid
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
1000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
10000000
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Transportation

Extent

N
S
E
W




N
S
E
W




N
S
E
W




N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

Time period
2006-01-01 2006-12-31

Temporal extent

Time period
2011-01-01 2011-12-31

Temporal extent

Time period
2016-01-01 2016-12-31

Temporal extent

Time period
2021-01-01 2021-12-31
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
  • Malta
  • Belgium
  • Poland
  • Montenegro
  • Portugal
  • Slovenia
  • Slovakia
  • Hungary
  • Sweden
  • France
  • Denmark
  • Ireland
  • Austria
  • Italy
  • Liechtenstein
  • North Macedonia
  • Türkiye
  • Luxembourg
  • Spain
  • Cyprus
  • Germany
  • Czechia
  • Finland
  • Estonia
  • Croatia
  • Romania
  • United Kingdom
  • Lithuania
  • Latvia
  • Norway
  • Bulgaria
  • Switzerland
  • Iceland
  • Netherlands
  • Greece
  • EU28 (2013-2020)
  • Liechtenstein
  • EU28 (2013-2020)
  • Switzerland
  • Iceland
  • Norway
  • EEA33 (2013-2020)
EEA Management Plan
  • 2019 1.1.5

  • 2016 1.1.1

  • 2019 1.1.5
EEA topics
  • Environmental health impacts
  • Noise
  • Pollution
  • Road transport
  • Transport and mobility
  • Biodiversity: state of habitats and species
  • Nature protection and restoration
GEMET
  • road traffic noise
  • motorway
  • industrial noise
  • aircraft noise
  • environmental noise
  • noise pollution
  • exposure
  • road
  • noise
  • noise level
  • traffic noise
  • human exposure to pollutants
  • railway
  • airport
  • noise monitoring
  • night noise
  • noise monitoring
  • airport
  • motorway
  • railway
  • road
  • environmental noise
  • noise
  • noise type
  • noise, vibrations
  • protected area
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
  • Human health and safety
  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
INSPIRE priority data set
  • Environmental noise exposure (Noise Directive)
  • Population (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations (Noise Directive)
  • Directive 2002/49/EC
  • Agglomerations - population (Noise Directive)
  • Directive 2002/49/EC
  • Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - industrial noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations – industrial noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Major airports noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Major airports noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Major railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Major railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Major roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Major roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - industrial noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Major roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Major airports noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Major railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Major roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Major airports noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations – industrial noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Major railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
  • Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)
Reporting obligations
  • Strategic noise maps (DF 4 and DF 8)
Spatial scope
  • European
  • European

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Reported data on noise exposure covered by Directive 2002/49/EC, 2007

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Reported data on noise exposure covered by Directive 2002/49/EC, 2012

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Reported data on noise exposure covered by Directive 2002/49/EC, 2017

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Noise exposure data reported under Environmental Noise Directive (END) 2017, version 2019, Oct. 2019

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Noise contours data reported under Environmental Noise Directive (END) 2017 (vector) - version 2019, Oct. 2019

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Noise contours data reported under Environmental Noise Directive (END) 2017 (raster 10m) - version 2019, Oct. 2019

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Potential quiet areas in Europe, based upon Quietness Suitability Index (QSI), Aug. 2016

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Potential quiet areas in Europe, based upon Quietness Suitability Index (QSI) and Natura 2000 protected areas, Jul. 2016

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Reported data on noise exposure covered by Directive 2002/49/EC, 2022, July 2024

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Reported data on noise exposure covered by Directive 2002/49/EC, 2017, July 2024

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Reported data on noise exposure covered by Directive 2002/49/EC, 2022, November 2024

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference
  • Noise contours data reported under Environmental Noise Directive (END) 2022 (vector), Mar. 2026

Metadata

Metadata identifier
c952f520-8d71-42c9-b74c-b7eb002f939b

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Series
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/c952f520-8d71-42c9-b74c-b7eb002f939b?language=all

Date info (Creation)
2022-09-29T15:02:27.208Z
Date info (Revision)
2026-09-18T14:12:41.698835Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3:2018

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2016 1.1.1 2019 1.1.5 2019 1.1.5
EEA topics

Biodiversity: state of habitats and species Environmental health impacts Nature protection and restoration Noise Pollution Road transport Transport and mobility
GEMET

aircraft noise airport airport environmental noise environmental noise exposure human exposure to pollutants industrial noise motorway motorway night noise noise noise noise level noise monitoring noise monitoring noise pollution noise type noise, vibrations protected area railway railway road road road traffic noise traffic noise
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Human health and safety
INSPIRE priority data set

Agglomerations (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - industrial noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - industrial noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - population (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations – industrial noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations – industrial noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Directive 2002/49/EC Directive 2002/49/EC Environmental noise exposure (Noise Directive) Major airports noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Major airports noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Major airports noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Major airports noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Major railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Major railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Major railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Major railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Major roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Major roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Major roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Major roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Population (Noise Directive)
Reporting obligations

Strategic noise maps (DF 4 and DF 8)
Spatial scope

European European


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