– Fields and another sports sites should not be excluded from sound standards as they make very burdensome noise.
Its origin is screams, squeals, screams, balls hitting the ground and metallic elements. According to experts, this sound is very frequently at 68 dB, which is much above normal. This is the alleged average noise, but we inactive have impulse sound in the field, which frequently reaches 110 dB – says Newseria Dorota Malanowska, a lawyer who deals with complaints from residents about excessive noise.
Noise contamination is 1 of the main environmental phenomena affecting the wellness and welfare of millions of Europeans
A government bill aimed at excluding pitches and another sports facilities from sound standards is already on the last simple work in parliament. However, in the course of this work, the Ombudsman expressed crucial doubts as to the compatibility of the task with the Constitution and another provisions, including the right to wellness protection. At the same time, he pointed to expanding complaints by citizens about sound from sports facilities. Experts stress that it has serious wellness consequences.
According to the GUS study of 2024. "Population vulnerability to sound in cities above 100,000 inhabitants" of sound contamination is 1 of the main environmental phenomena affecting the wellness and well-being of millions of Europeans. The data cited by the European Environment Agency indicate that at least 20% of the European population is exposed to long-term health-related noise. In Poland, in 2021, more than 282,000 people surviving in the cities over 100 000 inhabitants were exposed to noise, whose permissible levels were exceeded. This includes road, rail and industrial noise. The sound from the pitches has late become ‘loud’ due to the government's proposal by the Minister of athletics to exclude it from sound standards.
People in the fields rapidly announcement a noticeable deterioration in their well-being erstwhile vulnerability to specified noises exceeds a rational measure
– The impulse noise, which is the following suddenly, is the kind of sounds that origin intense reactions of the body, especially the cardiovascular, tense or hormonal system. There's a abrupt adrenaline rush in the bloodstream, muscle tension. And so it can be a 1000 times a day, day and night," says Agnieszka Kantaruk, who is leading the educational task “Creasing louder”. – People surviving in the fields rapidly announcement a noticeable deterioration in their well-being if the time of vulnerability to specified sound exceeds a rational measure. What is different is the situation erstwhile children sometimes play ball, they yell, they play, as always was in the neighborhoods, between houses or blocks, and what is different is erstwhile the sound from the field starts to have a dimension, let's call it industrial. I mean, 1 that lasts 7 days a week, day and night, and there is no longer a break that would let for regeneration and remainder from noise.
The amendment of the Sports Act, which provides for the exclusion of sound standards in relation to sound arising from: sports training, school sports activities and recreational physical activity, was initiated by the Ministry of athletics and Tourism after the court limited the anticipation of utilizing the field at simple School No. 4 in Puławy as a consequence of complaints from residents concerning noise. The introduction of changes has been justified, among others, by expanding cases of temporary or permanent exclusion from the usage of sports facilities, especially eagles.
The government's proposal raises very large legal doubts, besides as regards the mode of action itself
In mid-September, the draft government was adopted by the Sejm. On 24 September, the legislature tabled amendments to the bill and addressed it to the Sejm's Committee on Physical Culture, athletics and Tourism. "The government's proposal gives emergence to very large legal doubts, besides in terms of the procedure itself. First of all, it is incompatible with the principles of a democratic regulation of law, due to the fact that there has been no public consultation. specified consultation is simply a fundamental rule of the functioning of the state, where citizens can take a stand on these changes, they can make their comments, they can have any influence on these changes or the anticipation to present their position," says Dorota Malanowska.
The Ombudsman expressed his opposition to the planned changes. He stressed that "the promotion of sports activity must not take place at the expense of citizens' rights to sound protection". The opinion states that the task confers a right to property, privacy, wellness and related rights to life in a pollution-free environment.
The rule of wellness protection that the state should supply to citizens has been violated
– Another issue is the violation of the provisions of the Constitution, namely Article 32, the rule of equal treatment of citizens by the state. People suffering from sound coming from fields or another sports facilities will not be able to defend from the Environmental Protection Act, while those suffering from sound coming from roads or industrial plants, for example, will have the right to be protected in the light of the Act, says the lawyer. "Another issue is that the rule of wellness protection, which the state should supply to citizens, has been violated. Moreover, the fresh law does not introduce a definition of the concepts that have been used, and so there will be a very large legal chaos.
