No permits for parties or noisy events

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has announced that from now on it will not issue permits for parties and other events in urban residential areas as a way of preventing harmful and bothersome noise. For this purpose, they say they will work in coordination with the mayors of the country’s main cities in order to enforce compliance with laws 64-00 on the Environment and Natural Resources and 287-04 on Prevention, Suppression and Limitation of Damaging and Bothersome Noise that Causes Noise Pollution, among other regulations. A press release states that the measure is being taken in response to a series of formal noise pollution complaints in the state ministry database. Along with the measure, the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, the municipal governments and the Municipal Police is launching an innovative public education campaign aimed at regulating the noise that is bothersome, damaging to the environment and harmful to health.