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Aircraft Noise Management is a rather new concern in countries from the Eastern region of Europe, in comparison with other European regions. This statement is supported by the few interventions that have been implemented up to the present moment, situation that facilitates various opportunities for most of the relevant stakeholders (e.g. land-use planning). In order to be able to understand the importance of Aircraft Noise Management in this region, the article starts with a description of previous and predicted air traffic growth in comparison with other European countries. Further, the core legislative support for Aircraft Noise Management in Romania, Slovenia and Ukraine is detailed, followed by representative 'best practice' experiences at the level of each country. The article ends with highlighting the conclusions from experiences of the three countries as a basis for 'lesson learning'.

Aviation noise is known as being one of the main factors that can limit the airport growth, so a wise and well-balanced policy on noise mitigation at, and around the airports is necessary, particularly in the regions with rapid growth of air traffic. Romania is such example, with a 30% increase in air traffic in the first half of 2017. The aim of this paper is to investigate the existing gaps in implementing the aviation noise mitigation policies at Romanian airports, having END as a starting point, but considering also, and best practices from other EU airports. A detailed research of the Romanian aviation noise policy is given, with illustration of the status of the implementation of the ICAO Balanced Approach: new operations, LUP, operating restrictions. The existing of national policy tools to minimize the aviation noi se impact in airport vicinity is examined. The main research question is: Where is Romania placed on the European noise mitigation map? Discussion will be around gaps and barriers, to identify the best pathways Romanian airports should chose in order to design and implement a sustainable aviation noise policy. Iasi Airport will be chosen as a case-study, having the opportunity to learn from Heathrow and Schiphol airports on how to identify & implement best practices related to airport noise management. A Framework on a national approach towards noise mitigation, including a proposed Action Plan will be designed, to be later discussed with relevant aviation stakeholders, the Romanian CAA included. The Conclusions will be drawn and next steps proposed. The investigation for this work is realized in the frame of the ANIMA research project.

This study presents the analysis of six airport exemplification case studies undertaken in the European project "Aviation Noise Impact Management through Novel Approaches — ANIMA". Best practices related to aircraft noise management at airports in individual airport contexts were implemented and evaluated. Case studies on communication and community engagement in airport noise management were investigated at Heathrow (United Kingdom), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Rotterdam The Hague (The Netherlands) airports. For Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine) and Iasi (Romania) airports, the implementation of interventions related to land-use planning was examined. The interdependencies between noise and emissions were studied for Cluj (Romania) airport. All case studies were performed under the scope of the corresponding national legislation and guidelines. Individual characteristics of airport operations were taken into account The case studies were aligned with expectations and priorities of all involved stakeholders, such as representatives of airport operators, local communities, civil aviation authorities and policy makers. The efficacy of the noise management case studies is assessed in terms of the capacity to negotiate consensus outcomes, the extent to which noise impact reductions were achieved; and the participants' satisfaction with the process and outcomes. Experience gained from these studies will be used to distill best practices for future interventions.

This study presents the analysis of seven airport exemplification case studies undertaken in the European project "Aviation Noise Impact Management through Novel Approaches – ANIMA". Best practices related to aircraft noise management at airports in individual airport contexts were implemented and evaluated. Case studies on communication and community engagement in airport noise management were investigated at Heathrow (United Kingdom), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Rotterdam The Hague (The Netherlands) airports. For Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine) and Iasi (Romania) airports, the implementation of interventions related to land use planning was examined. The interdependencies between noise and emissions were studied for the airport at Cluj (Romania) along with an exploration of key Quality of Life issues. All case studies were performed under the scope of the corresponding national legislation and guidelines. Individual characteristics of airport operations were taken into account. The case studies were aligned with expectations and priorities of all involved stakeholders, such as representatives of airport operators, local communities, civil aviation authorities and policy makers. The efficacy of the noise management case studies was assessed in terms of the capacity to negotiate consensus outcomes, the extent to which noise impact reductions were achieved, and the participants' satisfaction with the process and outcomes. The case studies revealed the vital importance of community engagement in noise management if decisions are to be accepted and outcomes valued. In general, the earlier this engagement starts in the process of decision-making and implementation the better; although care needs to be taken in the selection of methods of engagement to ensure the tools used are appropriate to the engagement and communication task faced. In this way, overly long engagement should be avoided and with that the risk of increased uncertainty in outcomes. Such engagement should also ensure that decisions and subsequent interventions ...