EU Directives and Proposals

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Noise Operation Restrictions at EU Airports
(Report on the application of Directive 2002/30/EC)
Brussels, 15.2.2008
COM(2008) 66 final

DIRECTIVE 2008/101/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 19 November 2008 amending Directive 2003/87/EC so as to include aviation activities in the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community

DIRECTIVE 2003/87/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC

Directive 2002/30/EU on the establishment of rules and procedures with regard to the introduction of noise-related operative restrictions at Community Airports 3/26/2002

EU Proposal COM(2001) 74 final, 2001-0308 (COD) for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a Community framework for noise classification of civil subsonic aircraft for the purposes of calculating noise charges. 12/20/01

(COM(2001) 74 final - 2001/0203COD)) (2002/C 221/05) Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the "EU Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a Community framework for noise classification of civil subsonic aircraft for the purposes of calculating noise charges" 9/17/02

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 6/25/2002

Directive 2003/10/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 February 2003 on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (noise) (Seventeenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) 2/6/2003

COMMISSION RECOMENDATION 8/6/2003 concerning the guidelines on the revised interim computation method for industrial noise, aircraft noise, road traffic noise and railway noise, and related emission data (notified under document number C(2003)2807 (see section 2.4 Aircraft Noise)

ECAC.CEAC Doc 29 - Report on Standard Method of Computing Noise Contours around Civil Airports (1997)

EU Hushkit Regulation (With Drawn)
The EU has made the decision to withdraw the Hushkit Regulation that would have ban older hushkit aircraft from operating in Europe starting next 1 April 2002. The EU is in the process of developing a new regulation based on the recent ICAO recommendation whereby operation restrictions will be considered on an airport-by-airport basis.