Strategic noise map 2006

The Madrid City Council approved the Madrid strategic noise map on 15 January, 2009 and ordered the publication of the announcement of its approval in the official bulletins of the Region of Madrid and of the Madrid City Council.

The Madrid City Council prepared the strategic noise map for the city of Madrid complying with Royal Decree 1513/2005, developing Noise Law 37/2003. This map was prepared using the Madrid noise map dynamic updating system (SADMAM) designed to comply with the requirements of EU legislation and the Noise Law in the shortest possible time and with greater reliability than traditional procedures which use computer forecasting models exclusively.

Legal basis

Environmental noise is currently regulated by the Noise Law (Law 37/2003, 17 November) and the regulations developed from it by Royal Decrees 1513/2005 and 1367/2007, Decree 78/1999 regulating the protection against noise pollution in the Region of Madrid, and at the municipal level, by the Regulations to Protect the Atmosphere against Pollution by Energy Forms.

Article 8.2, section a) of Royal Decree 1513/2005 states that, "Before 30 June, 2007, strategic noise maps showing the situation of the previous calendar year must have been prepared and approved by the relevant authorities for all agglomerations with more than 250,000 inhabitants and all large road systems with traffic exceeding six million vehicles per year, major railways with traffic exceeding 60,000 trains per year and large airports within their territory."