The problem persists equally even in areas where huge resources are spent on regulating, assessing and reducing noise sources or on creating noise barriers. For example, huge efforts are made to reduce traffic noise at the source.

📢 Noise

In fact, today's cars are much quieter than those produced 10 years ago, but traffic volumes have grown so much that the effect of that effort is being cancelled out and the level of unpleasant noise is increasing.

The production of quieter cars may alleviate the problem for a while, but it will never eliminate it. Noise measurement and monitoring are needed to achieve and maintain environmental noise levels in defined areas and under different conditions, with the ultimate goal of protecting the health and well-being of the population.

Regulations

Noise Protection Law
Based on the provisions of the Law on Environmental Noise, 11 by-laws have been adopted in the period from 2007 to the present day, relating to noise indicators, monitoring and inspection of environmental noise. A consolidated text of the Law on Environmental Noise and the by-laws in their entirety can be downloaded at the following link:
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Law on Amendments to the Law on Protection from Environmental Noise
The issue of harmful noise emitted into the environment in the Republic of Macedonia is regulated by the following legislation: Law on Environmental Noise (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia” 79/07, 124/2010 and 47/11) which is fully in line with the applicable EU legislation.
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