Panel 1
Gabriele Bellabarba, Francesca Sacchetti
The Framework Law on noise pollution (LQ 447/1995) requires the autonomous regions/provinces to issue their own legislation which defines a series of criteria, methods and procedures necessary for the complete implementation of the national law. Since the enactment of LQ 447/95, the regional legislative framework is not yet complete: there are still 5 regions that have not adopted a regional law on noise pollution; some regions, in the absence of a regional law on noise, have approved specific acts.
The indicator reports the list of regulatory acts issued by each Region/Autonomous Province pursuant to LQ 447/95; for completeness of treatment, the regulations issued for the purposes of the obligations set out in Legislative Decree 194/2005 regarding the determination and management of environmental noise, transposition of Directive 2002/49/EC, have also been included among the regional regulatory acts. The indicator provides an overview of the regional legislation on noise pollution, based on the information provided by ARPA/APPA and collected by ISPRA.
Evaluate the response of the Regions/Autonomous Provinces in relation to the regional competence obligations envisaged by LQ 447/95 and the obligations envisaged by Legislative Decree 194/2005.
LQ 447/95 provides, in art. 4 paragraph 1, that, within one year of its entry into force, the autonomous regions/provinces are to issue their own legislation which defines the criteria for the municipal acoustic classification, the methods for issuing municipal authorizations for carrying out temporary noisy activities and the criteria for drawing up the acoustic impact documentation and the acoustic climate assessment, as well as a series of other criteria and methods of application of the rule itself.
Panel 2
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Data quality assessment
ISPRA/ARPA/APPA
The data necessary to populate the indicator are present in the Noise Observatory database, which can be populated by the ARPA/APPA representatives and can also be consulted by the public on the website https://agentifisici. isprambiente. it/associazionetoriorumore_public/home. php
National, Regional (20/20)
update as of 12/31/2025
Indicator assessment
The indicator is a list of regional laws/resolutions issued pursuant to LQ 447/95 and relating to the obligations set out in Legislative Decree 194/2005.
Since the issuance of the LQ, the regional legislative framework is not yet complete: 5 regions have not adopted a law on noise pollution; of these, 3 regions have however approved specific acts.
Data
Table 1: Regional regulations on acoustic noise pollution
ARPA/APPA
Figure 1: Regional regulations
ARPA/APPA
Table 1 shows the list of regional laws/resolutions issued in reference to article 4 of LQ 447/95 and all regional regulatory acts regarding noise pollution. There are still 5 regions that do not have a regional law on noise pollution: Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Sicily and Sardinia (Figure 1). In the absence of a regional law, guidelines for municipal noise classification were issued in Campania and Sicily, while in Sardinia a resolution was issued that defined regional directives on noise pollution. In Molise and Basilicata no regulation governing the matter has yet been issued.