Area: Environment and spatial planning
Competent authority: MOP
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 1012
Initiative accepted and completed: '2020-04-07'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2020-03-23'
Initiative published: '2020-03-23'
Initiative submitted: '2020-03-21'
Response from the competent authority: Reply from the Ministry of the Environment
  and Spatial Planning:We would like to clarify that heat pumps are sold on the internal
  market of the European Union, therefore their production and placing on the market
  is regulated by product legislation and environmental protection is included in
  the whole conformity assessment process.However, in the context of environmental
  noise regulation, a distinction is made between (1) heat pumps which are part of
  installations the operation of which, as a result of industrial, craft, manufacturing,
  service or similar activities, causes continuous or intermittent noise in the environment,
  and (2) heat pumps which are used by private individuals.This means that heat pumps
  used by legal persons are subject to the requirements and provisions of the Regulation
  on limit values for environmental noise indicators (Official Journal of the Republic
  of Slovenia No 43/18 and No 59/19, hereinafter referred to as the Regulation). This
  is a regulation which includes requirements for appropriate noise abatement measures
  if the source of environmental noise pollution exceeds the limit values laid down
  in the Regulation. The polluter, i.e. the operator of the noise source, is obliged
  under the Regulation to ensure the operational monitoring of the effects of its
  activities on the environment, in accordance with the regulation governing the operational
  monitoring of noise sources, i.e. the Regulation on the initial assessment and operational
  monitoring of noise sources and on the conditions for its implementation (Official
  Journal of the RS, No.... It follows from the Regulation that the obliged party
  must ensure operational monitoring for the installation once every three years and
  must also submit a copy of the noise assessment report to the Ministry or the Environment
  Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for safekeeping.The operation of heat pumps used
  by private individuals or households is not standardised. The provisions of the
  Regulation do not apply to noise generated by occupants in (neighbouring) dwellings
  or residential buildings. However, the Property Code stipulates that the owner must
  use his property in such a way that it does not cause undue harm to others.
Text file: 1012.txt
Title: Heat pump noise and property disturbance
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=1012
