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	1.	Introduction
	2.	Planning foundations
	2.1	General legal foundations
	2.1.1	Pollution control rights
	2.1.2	Building law
	2.1.3	Civil Code, Criminal Code and Administrative Offences Act
	2.2	The physical terms "sound" and "noise"
	2.3	Noise, sound emission and sound immission
	2.4	Acoustic principles
	2.4.1	The sound scale
	2.4.2	Calculation rules
	2.4.3	Definitions of further terms
	2.4.4	Noise measurements
	2.4.4.1	The relevance of noise measurements
	2.4.4.2	The realization of measurements
	2.4.4.3	The measurement devices
	2.5	The effect of noise protection constructions
	2.6	Summary 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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	2.	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.