Albania National Plan for Environmental Noise Management.

Albania National Plan for Environmental Noise Management is a cross-sectoral plan that establishes the framework to analyze, plan, and implement necessary measures required for the sustainable management of environmental noise aiming to prevent the negative effects of noise pollution on environment and human health. Although noise sources can be diverse, the action plan focuses on the noise caused by transport (road, railway, air), hospitality sector (resulting from music at bars, restaurants, pubs, and discos), and machinery and equipment located in public spaces. The main objective of the action plan is the sustainable management of the environmental noise in compliance with the permitted noise pollution levels establish by relevant EU directives and protection of human health.
To this end, the legal, administrative, and organizational measures set forth by the action plan focus on the following areas: revision and update of the legal framework especially the transport law and the road code in accordance with EU regulations, establishment of the Technical Council of Noise Pollution at the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Water Resources and the Noise Unit at the Institute of Public Health, control of noises at the source, regular inspections to assess and monitor the noise pollution levels, drafting of mitigating measures in case of high noise pollution especially in highways, road maintenance, and determining threshold limits for noise pollution.
Regarding governance, the Ministry of Environment is responsible for establishing the system of indicators that will be used to monitor and report on the environmental noise status; the Ministry of Transport is responsible for the noise administration in the transportation sector; and the Ministry of Health is responsible for monitoring the noise affect on human health and preparing mitigating measures. Further, the National Agency of Air Traffic is responsible for ensuring air traffic services that are safe and do not harm the environment.