22Before the Regulation came into effect, the Community had adopted three directives imposing limits on aircraft noise emissions: Council Directive 80/51/EEC of 20 December 1979 on the limitation of noise emissions from subsonic aircraft (OJ 1980 L 18, p. 26), as amended in particular by Council Directive 83/206/EEC of 21 April 1983 (OJ 1983 L 117, p. 15); Council Directive 89/629/EEC of 4 December 1989 on the limitation of noise emission from civil subsonic jet aeroplanes (OJ 1989 L 363, p. 27); and Council Directive 92/14/EEC of 2 March 1992 on the limitation of the operation of aeroplanes covered by Part II, Chapter 2, Volume 1 of Annex 16 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, second edition (1988) (OJ 1992 L 76, p. 21), as amended by Council Directive 98/20/EC of 30 March 1998 (OJ 1998 L 107, p. 4). Only the latter two directives are of relevance for the main proceedings.
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