Differences between the Principles of the European National Noise Laws and those of the Environmental Noise Directive

The implementation of the END (Environmental Noise Directive 49/2002/EC) has undoubtedly improved noise environmental policies across Europe and related development could be found even outside EU countries, since the attention to noise has been arisen. On the other side, its implementation is a challenging task for local administrations, as for new countries that are approaching to EU. Coexistence of national laws, often requiring different indicators, complicates and duplicates work for administrations and doesn’t help comprehension of the citizen about principles of EU legislation. The attempt of reducing this distance could come by a new law in Italy that will be here described. It plans to harmonize existing laws with the END, anticipating some aspects that could be issued by the new reviewed directive.