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1.Introduction
2.Planning foundations
2.1General legal foundations
2.1.1Pollution control rights
2.1.2Building law
2.1.3Civil Code, Criminal Code and Administrative Offences Act
2.2The physical terms "sound" and "noise"
2.3Noise, sound emission and sound immission
2.4Acoustic principles
2.4.1The sound scale
2.4.2Calculation rules
2.4.3Definitions of further terms
2.4.4Noise measurements
2.4.4.1The relevance of noise measurements
2.4.4.2The realization of measurements
2.4.4.3The measurement devices
2.5The effect of noise protection constructions
2.6Summary of noise assessment values based on immission values
3.Traffic noise
4.Industrial noise
5.Noise from sports and leisure facilities
6.Noise abatement plans / Noise action plans
7.Planning indications
8.Bibliography
9.Thematic Websites
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PLANNING FOUNDATIONS
   
 2.1 General legal foundations

This section provides an assembly of legal regulations and ordinances which are essential for noise control issues within urban development and the administrative handling of noise as an environmental problem. The following chapters 3, 4 and 5 give more details on these legal aspects in regard to the main sources of noise.