Regulation (EU) 2019/1010 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilDangos y teitl llawn

Article 2 U.K. Amendments to Directive 2002/49/EC

Directive 2002/49/EC is amended as follows:

(1)

in Article 3, the following point is added:

‘(w)

“data repository” means an information system, managed by the European Environment Agency, containing environmental noise information and data made available through national data reporting and exchange nodes under the control of the Member States.’;

(2)

in Article 8, paragraph 5 is replaced by the following:

‘5. The action plans shall be reviewed, and revised if necessary, when a major development occurs affecting the existing noise situation, and at least every five years after the date of the approval of those plans.

The reviews and revisions, that in accordance with the first subparagraph would be due to take place in 2023, shall be postponed to take place no later than 18 July 2024.’;

(3)

in Article 9, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1. Member States shall ensure that the strategic noise maps they have made, and where appropriate adopted, and the action plans they have drawn up are made available and disseminated to the public in accordance with relevant Union legislative acts, in particular Directives 2003/4/EC(1) and 2007/2/EC(2) of the European Parliament and of the Council, and in conformity with Annexes IV and V to this Directive, including by means of available information technologies.’;

(4)

in Article 10, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2. Member States shall ensure that the information from strategic noise maps and summaries of the action plans as referred to in Annex VI are sent to the Commission within six months of the dates laid down in Articles 7 and 8 respectively. For that purpose, Member States shall only report the information by electronic means to a mandatory data repository to be established by the Commission by means of implementing acts. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 13(2). In the event that a Member State wants to update information, it shall describe the differences between the updated and original information and the reasons for the update when making the updated information available to the data repository.’;

(5)

in Annex VI, point 3 is replaced by the following:

‘3.

Information exchange mechanism

The Commission, assisted by the European Environment Agency, shall, by means of implementing acts, develop a mandatory digital information exchange mechanism to share the information from the strategic noise maps and summaries of action plans, as referred to in Article 10(2). Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 13(2).’

(1)

Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC (OJ L 41, 14.2.2003, p. 26).

(2)

Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) (OJ L 108, 25.4.2007, p. 1).’;