Reported data on noise exposure covered by Directive 2002/49/EC, 2012

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The Directive relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise (the Environmental Noise Directive – END, 2002/49/EC) is the main EU instrument to identify noise pollution levels and to trigger the necessary action both at Member State and at EU level.

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Date (Creation)
2021-12-07T18:02:46+00:00
Date (Publication)
2021-12-07T18:02:46+00:00
Citation identifier
eea_t_noise-exposure-2012_p_2011_v01_r00

Citation identifier
data-on-noise-exposure-8

Citation identifier
DAT-152-en

Purpose

Number of people exposed to a certain noise band. 

Percentage of people exposed to a certain noise band. 

Total number of inhabitants of a urban area, size of the urban area (km2)

Length of major roads and major railways (km)

Airport annual traffic (number of aircraft movements per year)

Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency
Point of contact

European Environment Agency

http://www.eea.europa.eu#organization

Publisher
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2011-01-01 2011-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
Reporting obligations
EEA Management Plan

  • 2019 1.1.5

EEA topics
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations to public access
Language
English
Additional Information

Data submitted by EEA member countries until 01/01/2021.

According to Article 7 of the END:



Member States shall ensure that no later than 30 June 2007 strategic noise maps showing the situation in the preceding calendar year have been made and, where relevant, approved by the competent authorities, for all agglomerations with more than 250000 inhabitants and for all major roads which have more than six million vehicle passages a year, major railways which have more than 60000 train passages per year and major airports within their territories.



Member States shall adopt the measures necessary to ensure that no later than 30 June 2012, and thereafter every five years, strategic noise maps showing the situation in the preceding calendar year have been made and, where relevant, approved by the competent authorities for all agglomerations and for all major roads and major railways within their territories.

This information is reported according to Article 3 of the END, in which:



'agglomeration' shall mean part of a territory, delimited by the Member State, having a population in excess of 100 000 persons and a population density such that the Member State considers it to be an urbanised area;



'major road' shall mean a regional, national or international road, designated by the Member State, which has more than three million vehicle passages a year;



'major railway' shall mean a railway, designated by the Member State, which has more than 30 000 train passages per year;



'major airport' shall mean a civil airport, designated by the Member State, which has more than 50 000 movements per year (a movement being a take-off or a landing), excluding those purely for training purposes on light aircraft;





More information about the END Directive is available on the DG Environment web site ( http://ec.europa.eu/environment/noise/directive_en.htm).

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_t_noise-exposure-2012_p_2011_v01_r00

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Data submitted by EEA member countries until 01/01/2021.This database contains information on the number of people exposed to 5 decibel (dB) bands for two indicators "Lden : 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, >75" and "Lnight. : 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, > 70". The database covers the noise sources specified in the END (major roads, major railways, major airports and urban agglomerations) and the corresponding number of people exposed to each of the noise sources inside urban areas and outside urban areas. Percentage of people exposed has also been calculated for comparative purposes. The reporting requirements were set to start as from 2005, and the reporting cycle specified in the END is 5 years, with the exposure data submitted in 2007, 2012 and 2017.    

Resource lineage

Statement

European Commission Directorate-General for Environment; EEA.

 

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
6be0fd3e-e158-4ce5-85d6-282dd14ac1af

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
Non geographic dataset
Name

Tabular dataset

Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/6be0fd3e-e158-4ce5-85d6-282dd14ac1af?language=all

Date info (Creation)
2022-09-07T08:38:32.178Z
Date info (Revision)
2026-03-19T08:58:57.332042Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3:2018

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2019 1.1.5
EEA topics

Environmental health impacts
Reporting obligations

Strategic noise maps (DF 4 and DF 8)


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