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The Anti-Noise Environmental Monitor Association celebrates its 1st year anniversary

15/04/2024

Our institutional goal is to promote acoustic environmental eco-efficiency, and acoustic industrial quality of equipment, machinery, and tools. we are also working to protect the natural environmental sound quality, the right to acoustic home inviolability, environmental health, standards of well-being, environmental comfort, and acoustic environmental sustainability.

Also, our commitment is to: implement the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable city, free from the emission of excessive, unnecessary, and harmful mechanical noise.

– implement the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, free from the emission of excessive, unnecessary, and harmful noise.

– guarantee the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable street, free from excessive, unnecessary, and harmful noise.

– advocacy fort the right to clean, healthy, and sustainable residential buildings, free from excessive, unnecessary, and harmful noise.

– implement the right to clean, healthy, and sustainable neighborhoods,  free from noise emissions.

In our first year of activities, we submitted several bill proposals to the city hall and to the city council in Curitiba:

  •  A bill to promote the acoustic environmental quality of the city of Curitiba and promote the acoustic environmental sustainability of public transportation services;
  • A bill to combat excessive, unnecessary, and harmful noise, as well as environmental noise pollution from noisy motorcycles;  
  • A bill to promote acoustic environmental sustainability in civil construction works in the city of Curitiba;
  • A bill to promote acoustic environmental sustainability and acoustic environmental education in residential areas;
  • A bill to promote acoustic environmental quality for the protection of animals and birds;
  • A bill to encourage environmental sustainability and environmental education in residential buildings, regulating the responsible use of pressure washers;
  • A bill to include, protect and promote the rights of people with neurodiversity and/or cognitive and/or auditory neurodivergence;
  • A bill to update Curitiba’s Environmental Policy Law and guarantee acoustic environmental eco-efficiency, acoustic environmental health, acoustic environmental sustainability, and acoustic environmental education.
  • A bill to update the Curitiba Master Plan Law and guarantee acoustic environmental eco-efficiency , natural sound environmental quality, acoustic environmental sustainability, and acoustic environmental education.
  • a bill to update the Curitiba Health Code.
  • A bill to update the Curitiba Public Transportation Law and guarantee acoustic environmental eco-efficiency, protection of acoustic environmental health and acoustic environmental sustainability of the city.
  • A bill to update Curitiba’s education plan.
  • A billto update Curitiba’s organic law.

For the Federal Government, we present the following bill proposals:

  • A bill to promote acoustic industrial innovation and acoustic environmental sustainability in protecting environmental sound quality;
  • A bill to guarantee acoustic industrial quality, acoustic environmental eco-efficiency in the manufacture of equipment, machines, tools and objects with noise emission power;
  • A bill to promote acoustic environmental quality and acoustic environmental sustainability in the workplace;
  • A bill to modernize the Consolidation of Labor Laws and guarantee Workers’ Rights to the acoustic environmental quality of the work environment;
  • A bill to modernize the Civil Code, in terms of property rights and condominiums, respect for fundamental rights, and the right to environmental health standards, acoustic and auditory environmental well-being, acoustic and auditory environmental comfort, clause acoustic environmental sustainability, to include respect for the democratic principle in elections and deliberations in condominiums, among others;
  • A bill on acoustic environmental sustainability for residential buildings, and commercial buildings and housing units – Anti-noise law;
  • A bill to modernize the Consumer Protection Code, to encourage acoustic environmental eco-efficiency of products and services and acoustic environmental sustainability;
  • A bill to update the proposed legal framework for urban public transportation;
  • A bill to update the law on federalism, collaboration and environmental cooperation between federative entities (Complementary Law No. 140, of 2011);
  • A bill to include acoustic environmental eco-efficiency and acoustic environmental sustainability in the environmental information law;
  • A bill to update the environmental education law to include acoustic environmental education;
  • A bill to update the law on the city’s statute, in accordance with the principles of acoustic environmental eco-efficiency and acoustic environmental sustainability;
  • A bill to include acoustic environmental eco-efficiency and acoustic environmental sustainability in the National Environmental Policy Law;
  • A bill to incorporate the principle of acoustic environmental eco-efficiency and acoustic environmental sustainability into law 11,182, of 2005, which created the National Civil Aviation Agency | ANAC;
  • A bill to update the National Traffic Code law and ensure acoustic environmental eco-efficiency and acoustic environmental sustainability of traffic;
  • A bill to update the Unified Health System Law (law 8,080/1990) and include acoustic environmental health;
  • A bill to update the Urban Mobility Law and ensure acoustic environmental eco-efficiency , acoustic environmental health of cities and acoustic environmental sustainability of urban traffic;
  • A bill to update the Railways Law, and guarantee acoustic environmental eco-efficiency , acoustic environmental health and acoustic environmental sustainability of cities;
  • A bill to update the Bidding and Administrative Contracts Law and ensure acoustic environmental eco-efficiency and acoustic environmental sustainability.

We also publish the following Booklets:

  • Acoustic Environmental Sustainability – Clean Street;
  • Acoustic Environmental Sustainability – Industry;
  • Acoustic Environmental Sustainability – Environmental Citizenship;
  • Acoustic Environmental Sustainability –Construction;
  • Acoustic Sustainability – Duties and obligations of residential condominiums;
  • Acoustic Environmental Sustainability – Fundamental Rights;
  • Anti-noise booklet for residential areas;

You can also participate in the Anti-Noise Movement. Support the debate and approval of the bill proposals mentioned above. Forward messages, audios and videos, to contribute to the debate, to authorities, mayors, councilors, deputies and senators. Publicize the actions on social networks and in the media. Discover the publications of the Environmental Monitor Anti-Noise Civil Association: https://antirruidos.wordpress.com/ e https://twitter.com/antirruidos .

Ericson M. Scorsim

Lawyer and Consultant in Communication Law. PhD in Law from USP. Author of the Ebooks Collection on Communication Law with a focus on topics on technologies, internet, telecommunications and media.