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Commission Directive (EU) 2020/367 of 4 March 2020 amending Annex III to Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the establishment of assessment methods for harmful effects of environmental noise (Text with EEA relevance)
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Commission Directive (EU) 2020/367
of 4 March 2020
amending Annex III to Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the establishment of assessment methods for harmful effects of environmental noise
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise(1), and in particular Article 12 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Annex III to Directive 2002/49/EC refers to dose-effect relations to be introduced by way of adaptations of that Annex to technical and scientific progress.
(2) At the time of adoption of this Directive, the high quality and statistically significant information that could be used was that of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region(2), presenting dose-effect relations for harmful effects induced by the exposure to environmental noise. Consequently, the dose-effect relations introduced in Annex III to Directive 2002/49/EC should be based on those guidelines. In particular concerning the statistical significance, the WHO studies were based on representative populations, and the results of these assessment methods are consequently considered relevant when applied to representative populations.
(3) Beyond the dose-effect relations developed in the context of the WHO, other studies might show different health effect sizes and other health effects, in particular concerning effects of road, railway and aircraft noise in local situations in specific countries. The alternative dose-effect relations established therein could be used provided that they are based on high quality and statistically significant studies.
(4) Currently, limited knowledge is available on the harmful effects of industrial noise so that it is not possible to propose a common method for their assessment. Also, country specificities were not assessed in studies and therefore could not be included in this Annex. Likewise, while links between environmental noise and the following harmful effects were found, there is currently no sufficient evidence for determining a common method for the assessment of those harmful effects: stroke, hypertension, diabetes and other metabolic health outcomes, cognitive impairment in children, mental health and wellbeing, hearing impairment, tinnitus, adverse birth outcomes. Finally, while the link between railway noise and aircraft noise to the ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is established, for these two sources the quantification of the increased risk of IHD is premature.
(5) Directive 2002/49/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
(6) The measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established under Article 13 of Directive 2002/49/EC,
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Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region, World Health Organisation 2018, ISBN 978 92 890 5356 3.
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