Noise – The awkwardness revisited

Introduction

Since a long time ago, economic agents have to fulfill various requirements relating to noise. With the publication of the General Regulation of Noise by Decree-Law 9/2007, He entered in the phase where we are. Estes requirements, are very goals, and people with technical training, as in the case of engineers who are most often the managers of industrial infrastructure, are easily led to believe that, compliance with the legal provisions explicitly related to noise, the issue is closed.

However the courts have tried to draw attention to the fact that this does not correspond to reality to be established that the individual has the right to Comfort and Health.

In fact a recent study published by the World Health Organization [1] estimated, in Western Europe, are lost annually between 1 e 1,6 million years of healthy life due to environmental noise.

This poses new challenges, due to enter the field of subjective evaluation that each one makes of stimuli that the environment that surrounds it sends. We all know that each one is more or less sensitive and that every day in situations occur in which it is irrelevant to a, It is very annoying to others, and that in such matters the subjective attitude towards the stimulation plays a key role.

We have come up well to a situation where the courts have made it clear that compliance with the provisions of the General Regulation of the noise or any other regulation related to noise is a necessary condition but not sufficient, going so far as to mention that this is only an "administrative tool for the purpose of licensing".