S.L. 549.37 ст. 4Definitions. S.L. 549.19 S.L. 549.77

For the purposes of these regulations:

"acoustical planning" means controlling future noise by planned measures, such as land-use planning, systems engineering for traffic, traffic planning, abatement by sound-insulation measures and noise control of sources; "action plans" means plans designed to manage noise issues and effects, including noise reduction if necessary; "agglomeration" means part of a territory, delimited by the competent authority having a population in excess of 100,000 persons and a population density such that the competent authority considers it to be an urbanised area;

"Agreement States" means an agreement, to which Malta is a party, entered into by a group of states reciprocally granting to citizens of such states or their dependants the right to enter, remain and reside in and leave the territory of such state, to move freely within such states for such period as may be established in the agreement and to work or establish provide or receive services therein; and "Agreement State" and "citizen of an Agreement State" shall be construed accordingly; and where a state is a party to such an Agreement subject to modifications and adaptations, a citizen of an Agreement State shall be subject to such modifications or adaptations as may be prescribed;

"annoyance" means the degree of community noise annoyance as determined by means of field surveys;

"assessment" means any method used to calculate, predict, estimate or measure the value of a noise indicator or its related harmful effects; "competent authority" means the Environment and Resources Authority as prescribed by the Nomination of the Competent Authority Order, and such other body or person as the Minister responsible for the environment may by order in the Gazette prescribe and different bodies or persons may by designated as the competent authority for different provisions and different purposes of these regulations;

"dose-effect relation" means the relationship between the value of a noise indicator and a harmful effect;

"environmental noise" means unwanted or harmful outdoor sound created by human activities, including noise emitted by means of transport, road traffic, rail traffic, air traffic, and from sites of industrial activity such as those defined in Annex I of the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations;

"harmful effects" means negative effects on human health; "Lday Day-noise indicator" means the noise indicator for annoyance during the day period, as further defined in Annex I of Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 Iune 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise; "Lden Day-evening-night noise indictor" means the noise indicator for overall annoyance, as further defined in First Schedule;

"Levening evening-noise indicator" means the noise indicator for annoyance during the evening period, as further defined in First Schedule; "Limit value" means a value of Lden or Lnight, and where appropriate Lday and Levening, as determined by the competent authority, the exceeding of which causes the competent authority to consider or enforce mitigation measures; limit values may be different for different types of noise (road, rail, air-traffic noise, industrial noise, etc), different surroundings and different noise sensitiveness of the populations; they may also be different for existing situations and for new situations (where there is a change in the situation regarding the noise source or the use of the surroundings);

"Lnight night-time noise indicator" means the noise indicator for sleep disturbance, as further defined in First Schedule;

"major airport" means a civil airport, designated by the competent authority, which has more than 50 000 movements per year (a movement being a take-off or a landing), excluding those purely for training purposes on light aircraft; "major railway" means a railway, designated by the competent authority which has more than 30,000 train passages per year; "major road" means a regional, national or international road, designated by the competent authority which has more than three million vehicle passages a year;

"noise indicator" means a physical scale for the description of environmental noise, which has a relationship with a harmful effect; "noise mapping" means the presentation of data on an existing or predicted noise situation in terms of a noise indicator, indicating breaches of any relevant limit value in force, the number of people affected in a certain area, or the number of dwellings exposed to certain values of a noise indicator in a certain area; "the public" means one or more natural or legal persons and, in accordance with national legislation or practice, their associations, organisations or groups; "quiet area in an agglomeration" means an area, delimited by the competent authority, for instance which is not exposed to a value of Lden or of another appropriate noise indicator greater than a certain value set by the competent authority from any noise source; "quiet area in open country" means an area, delimited by the competent authority, that is undisturbed by noise from traffic, industry or recreational activities; "strategic noise map" means a map designed for the global assessment of noise exposure in a given area due to different noise sources or for overall predictions for such an area.