Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-01-Speech-1-078"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Environmental noise2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011001.5.1-078"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-01-Speech-1-0792
lpv:speaker	lp:Cristina García-orcoyen Tormo2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2000-10-05--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-11-04--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, noise pollution is, of course, a reality. Furthermore it is increasing in most countries of the European Union. It is aggressive not only to the hearing but also to the whole nervous system of citizens and in many cases it alters not only the personality, through reactions such as irritability and insomnia, but it also produces pain in the auditory system. I come from a southern country and to tell you the truth I have very often thought: ‘Who could silence that lawnmower next door! Who could make the traffic on this street quieter! Who could stop the music coming from that discotheque on the other side of the block from reaching my windows!’ And on all those occasions when a citizen such as me has said, ‘Why is there nothing or nobody that can stop this noise?’, it should be possible for most cases to be regulated, either by the local council, the residents association or the regional authorities. In other words, at a local level rather than a national level. As numerous speakers have said, realistically speaking, it seems to me that there are practically no cases in which noise, at the level most citizens suffer it, should be dealt with in a cross-border fashion. Airport noise has been mentioned, but it apparently affects 1.7% of the population of a country, while road traffic noise affects far more. It seems to me that to concentrate on airport noise and not deal on a local level with road traffic, in particular, is a rather absurd form of discrimination against airports. I am not going to go into that, however. Above all, I wanted to make it clear once again that there is a difference between the various countries of the European Union in terms of noise and perceptions of it. In this respect, Mediterranean countries are more noisy, we have a climate which allows us to be outdoors and, in this sense, eight o’clock in the evening is for us a time for socialising, to be out and to be professionally active. We could never approve or support a directive which discriminates against other people’s cultures in this way."@en1

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