I propose to the Government to reintroduce church bell ringing into the regulation on the limit values for environmental noise indicators, or simply to ban it.
EXPLANATION OF THE PROPOSAL:
We are living in times when pressures on the environment are constantly intensifying, be it through waste, excessive lighting and various other emissions, including noise, the negative effects of which are already well known.
With the increase in the level of motorisation and Slovenia's accession to the EU, the number of vehicles on our roads is also increasing, and they are therefore a significant generator of noise in the living environment, in addition, of course, to all the other negative impacts. I therefore really do not see why our mornings and evenings (especially at weekends) should be 'brightened up' by another 5 or 10 minutes of church bells, which, near churches, are particularly annoying for someone who is not a believer in the first place, and who, in the second place, does not find the Sunday bell ringing to be any kind of a gracious wake-up call, a call to sleep or an afternoon rest and, after all, a call to work.
Even if there were accordions hanging in the bell towers playing the famous 'Na Golico', this would have to be counted as noise if it were played during the hours when one is asleep or resting at a volume that would throw you out of bed from your thoughts or make you feel distracted at work.
I am therefore proposing that church bells be reintroduced into the regulation on the limit values for ambient noise indicators, because they were only there once before, but they were removed for trivial reasons, such as the fact that church bells are music. Playing the violin or singing in the middle of Ljubljana at 6 a.m. on a Sunday is also music, and yet it will quickly happen that both of them will go to the Ljubljanica or somewhere else...