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PART 4
Monitoring, Review and Enforcement
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Implementation of noise mitigation measures, etc., by airport authority
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19. (1) The airport authority shall—
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(a) be responsible for introducing any noise mitigation measures and operating restrictions,
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(b) ensure that appropriate noise measuring systems are in place at the airport on an ongoing basis, and
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(c) take appropriate steps to ensure that all airport users comply with all noise mitigation measures and operating restrictions.
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(2) (a) The competent authority may, after consultation with the airport authority, by notice in writing direct the airport authority to install noise measuring systems referred to in subsection (1) (b) at such locations in or outside the airport as are specified in the direction and within such period as is specified in the direction.
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(b) The airport authority shall comply with a direction given to it under paragraph (a).
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(3) Subject to subsection (4), the airport authority shall, on or before each anniversary of the date of commencement of this section, prepare and adopt a report in writing in the specified form (in this section referred to as a “compliance report”) on the compliance or otherwise of airport users with noise mitigation measures and operating restrictions.
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(4) A compliance report shall include—
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(a) particulars of failures (if any) to comply with operating restrictions due to changes in flight procedures,
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(b) the general criteria applied when distributing and managing traffic at the airport to the extent that those criteria may relate to noise impact,
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(c) the data collected by the noise measuring systems referred to in subsection (1)(b),
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(d) particulars of failures by airport users to comply with noise mitigation measures and, in addition to the failures referred to in paragraph (a), other failures to comply with operating restrictions (including aircraft flying off track without being directed to do so by the Irish Aviation Authority),
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(e) proposals to avoid or reduce the failures referred to in paragraph (a) or (d), or both such failures, including the imposition of financial penalties, and
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(f) a non-technical summary of the matters referred to in paragraphs (a) to (e) (including an analysis of the data referred to in paragraph (c)).
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(5) (a) The competent authority may by notice in writing direct the airport authority to give to it such further information, relevant to the matters to which the compliance report relates (or should have related), specified in the direction and within such period as is specified in the direction.
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(b) The airport authority shall comply with a direction given to it under paragraph (a).
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(6) The competent authority shall publish on its website for inspection by members of the public—
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(a) a compliance report, and
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(b) the further information (if any) referred to in subsection (5)(a),
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as soon as is practicable after it receives the compliance report or further information, as the case may be.
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