Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
Technical advice on environmental noise policy, management, control and mapping. Expertise in strategic noise mapping, environmental noise policy, noise control and noise action planning.
EU Legislative Interests
Environmental noise, including: Directive 2002/49/EC - Environmental Noise Directive (END), Commission Decision 2003/613/EC - Adapted Interim Methods, Directive 2007/2/EC - INSPIRE, Regulation 598/2014 - Balanced Approach Regulation (BAR), Directive 996/2015 - CNOSSOS-EU, Regulation 2019/1010 - Reporting Obligations, Directive 2020/367 - Health Impacts, Delegated Directive 2021/1226 - Amending CNOSSOS-EU.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
Institute of Acoustics (https://www.ioa.org.uk/) Audio Engineering Society (http://www.aes-uk.org/) International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (https://www.iiav.org/) Acoustical Society of America (https://acousticalsociety.org/) The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (https://www.ipse.co.uk/)
Organisation Members
none
Connected Legislation
Environmental aspects of enlargement negotiations
Revision of LIFE programme
Implementation of certain directives on the environment
LIFE Environment Instrument: Amendment to Regulation EEC/1973/92
The environment to take place in SOFIA in October 1995
Extension of LIFE Financial Instrument to 2006 (Amendment: Reg 1655/2000)
Environmental information, public participation & justice
Environmental protection through criminal law
Directive on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage (the ‘ELD’)
Fight against serious environmental crimes
Decision on behalf of the EC, of an amendment to the Convention on access to information, public participation in decision making and access to justice in environmental matters
LIFE: Romania's participation in environmental financial instrument
Environment Implementation Review
Revision of EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme)
Biological Diversity
EU environmental standards vs stricter national norms of 3 new Member States
Alignment of environmental policy reporting obligations
Environment, Security and Foreign Affairs
Amendment: LIFE Financial Instrument for the Environment (Reg 1655/2000/EC)
The environment - amendment of 85L0337
Review of Recommendation 2001/331/EC: Environmental inspection criteria
Implementation of environmental directives
Environmental inspections
G7 Halifax Summit 1995: Environmental considerations
Behalf of the European Union, of the Council of Europe Convention on the protection of the environment through criminal law
Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 on the application of the provisions of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters to Community institutions and bodies
Århus Convention application to EU institutions
Environmental liability: prevention and remedying of damage
Decision on combating environmental crime
Environmental protection through criminal law (replacing Directive 2008/99/EC)
Access to justice in environmental matters
Corporate liability for environmental damage
Resolution on the Kyoto Conference objectives