ANNEX III

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 - Declaration by the Commission in the Conciliation Committee on the Directive relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise · European Union

ASSESSMENT METHODS FOR HARMFUL EFFECTS referred to in Article 6(3) Dose-effect relations should be used to assess the effect of noise on populations. The dose-effect relations introduced by future revisions of this Annex in accordance with Article 13(2) will concern in particular: the relation between annoyance and Lden for road, rail and air traffic noise, and for industrial noise, the relation between sleep disturbance and Lnight for road, rail and air traffic noise, and for industrial noise. If necessary, specific dose-effect relations could be presented for: dwellings with special insulation against noise as defined in Annex VI, dwellings with a quiet façade as defined in Annex VI, different climates/different cultures, vulnerable groups of the population, tonal industrial noise, impulsive industrial noise and other special cases.

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