1. EU legislation on noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors: latest developments September 2018
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (Growth)
Unit C.3 - Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing Systems

2. Legislative references
Directive 2000/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 May 2000 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors (OJ L 162, , p. 1)
– as amended by Directive 2005/88/EC (OJ L 344, , p. 44), Corrigendum 05/88 (OJ L 165, , p. 35) and Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 (OJ L 87, , p. 109)
- Applicable since 3 January 2002

3. Initiative to revise the Directive
Several issues to be taken into consideration:
Adaptation to the technical progress: scope (lists of equipment), noise limits, conformity assessment procedures, notified bodies, standards for noise measurements methods (test codes)
Administration and information: marking, labelling, collection of noise data
Structure and format: alignment to the “New Legislative Framework” (Decision No 768/2008/EC and other instruments), conversion into a Regulation instead of a Directive

4. Ongoing activities
Inception Impact Assessment (“Roadmap”): published in the Commission's "Better Regulation" website in November 2017
Supporting study for an evaluation and impact assessment of Directive 2000/14/EC:
Carried out by external consultants (VVA and consortium)
Started in May 2017, included an open public consultation running from January to April 2018
Final Reports delivered in July 2018, to be circulated – after the last comments and adjustments – for the meeting of the Outdoor Noise Working Group on 28 September 2018

5. Indicative planning for the revision of Directive 2000/14/EC
Last trimester 2018: elaboration of the Staff Working Document on the results from the Evaluation and Impact Assessment Study
2019: elaboration of the Commission Proposal and the related Impact Assessment Report for new EU legislation on Outdoor Noise Emissions
End 2019 / beginning 2020: submission of the Commission Proposal and the related Impact Assessment Report to the EU co-legislators (European Parliament and the Council)
: discussion and adoption?
: transition period and implementation?

6. Activities of the working parties under Directive 2000/14/EC
Committee (under Article 18 of Directive 2000/14/EC) and Working Group: last meeting held in 23 January 2018, next meetings planned on 28 September 2018 and 22 January 2019
Administrative Co-operation (AdCo) Group (market surveillance): currently chaired by Belgium; last meeting held in 10 October 2017, next meeting planned in February or March 2019
European Coordination of Notified Bodies Group: last meeting held on 1 March 2018, next meeting planned in February or March 2019

7. References
Commission's sectorial website on Noise Emission by Outdoor Equipment (Directive 2000/14/EC): engineering/noise-emissions/
CIRCABC Interest Groups: “Noise Emissions”, “Noise emissions - Adco”, “Noise Emission NB”
CE marking: marking/
New Legislative Framework: legislative-framework
The 'Blue Guide' on the implementation of EU product rules:

8. Thank you for your attention!
Contact:
Mario Gabrielli Cossellu, Policy Officer
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (Growth)
Unit C.3 - Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing Systems /