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Regulation (EU) No 598/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the establishment of rules and procedures with regard to the introduction of noise-related operating restrictions at Union airports within a Balanced Approach and repealing Directive 2002/30/EC
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Competent authorities will ensure the use of noise assessment methods which have been developed in accordance with the European Civil Aviation Conference Report Doc 29 entitled ‘Standard Method of Computing Noise Contours around Civil Airports’, 3rd Edition.
For reduction at source:
information on the current aircraft fleet and any expected technology improvements;
specific fleet renewal plans.
For land-use planning and management:
planning instruments in place, such as comprehensive planning or noise zoning;
mitigating measures in place, such as building codes, noise insulation programmes or measures to reduce areas of sensitive land use;
consultation process in respect of the land-use measures;
monitoring of encroachment.
For noise abatement operational measures, to the extent that those measures do not restrict the capacity of an airport:
use of preferential runways;
use of noise-preferential routes;
use of noise abatement take-off and approach procedures;
indication of the extent to which those measures are regulated under environment indicators, as mentioned in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 691/2010.
For operating restrictions:
use of global restrictions, such as a cap on movements or noise quotas;
use of aircraft-specific restrictions, such as the withdrawal of marginally compliant aircraft;
use of partial restrictions, drawing a distinction between daytime measures and night-time measures.
The financial instruments in place, such as noise-related airport charges.
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