


The objective of The Society shall be to represent, safeguard and promote the legitimate interests of society or individuals, so as to protect and improve their quality of life, by being enabled to live in a peaceful environment free from noise pollution.
Quiet areas in Malta?
Three quarter of the urbanised area in Europe is potentially affected by noise pollution. Several cities and regions have put in place so-called quiet areas in parks and other green spaces where people can go to escape the city noise. "Quiet area" is a concept used in landscape planning to highlight areas with good sound quality and limited noise disturbance.
In Malta such a concept would be considered a waste of resources. Who knows, what if quite areas would be located on the roofs of high-rise buildings.
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​This brings to mind the petition by MEP Aguis and MP Buttigieg who will be calling on the European Parliament to intervene and ensure EU rules on noise pollution are enforced in Malta. The association support this initiative and hope that the petition’s objective would be achieved.
Noise management depends on number of factors. In this case, the effectiveness of the EU regulation, the proper application by the member state and the type of noise legislation at the local level.
How effective are the EU and the Maltese noise legislation?
An import Directive was enacted in 1970. The scope of the directive was the reduction of traffic noise. It laid-down the exhaust sound level for the motor vehicles, that for private vehicles was 74 decibels .
Thirty-two years later (June 2002) the EU enacted the Environment Noise Directive. Its scope - the management and reduction of the noise from transport and the industry. It does not set limit or target values for environmental noise, nor does it prescribe the measures to be included in the action plans. It neither includes noise from other sources, such as; Construction and leisure activities ........
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