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Parliamentary report on noise nuisances
Recommendations - 29/06/2011
On Tuesday, June 28th, a report on the fight against noise nuisances was presented in front of the Sustainable development commission of the French National Assembly. 30 organisations were audited, including Bruitparif, which led the parliamentary mission to make 19 proposals about 4 main topics:
- transportation infrastructures: taking multi-exposure into account when processing insulation aid applications, making available the budget necessary to the reduction of noise hotspots, implementing a “heart of the night” air curfew at the European scale, insulation aids for people living close to airports with fewer than 20,000 movements a year…
- urban development: drawing up local noise plans for towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants, implementing convivial areas where café terraces would be allowed up to a certain hour and at the same time quiet areas where they would be forbidden, using materials aimed at reducing the noise level in schools (yards, gymnasiums, school restaurants…), lowering the maximum sound level authorised in nightclubs from 105 dB(A) to 90-95 dB(A), coordinating thermal and acoustic insulation works…
- control and repression: enforcing neighbourhood noise regulations more frequently, on the one hand by council officers, on the other hand by the police through the appointment of noise officers…
- information and prevention: developing sound environment education at school, training architects better in acoustics issues, launching a wide national campaign on the topic: “Too much noise kills your ears”…
Download the parliamentary report (French only)
- urban development: drawing up local noise plans for towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants, implementing convivial areas where café terraces would be allowed up to a certain hour and at the same time quiet areas where they would be forbidden, using materials aimed at reducing the noise level in schools (yards, gymnasiums, school restaurants…), lowering the maximum sound level authorised in nightclubs from 105 dB(A) to 90-95 dB(A), coordinating thermal and acoustic insulation works…
- control and repression: enforcing neighbourhood noise regulations more frequently, on the one hand by council officers, on the other hand by the police through the appointment of noise officers…
- information and prevention: developing sound environment education at school, training architects better in acoustics issues, launching a wide national campaign on the topic: “Too much noise kills your ears”…
Download the parliamentary report (French only)
Regulations - 13/12/2011
The European Commission presented last December 9th a proposal...
