The agency will produce guidelines. The bill indicates that the agency must prepare guidelines in consultation with the various stakeholders. We have already started to prepare the framework for the guidelines, and once the bill is passed, we should be able to begin consultations with the railway companies and the municipalities. Obviously, it would be impossible to consult every individual affected by noise problems, but we will do the necessary consultations.
The bill also stipulates that all collaborative measures must be exhausted and that all mediation and facilitation efforts must have failed. In those cases, when there are complaints, the agency will be able to consider them, listen to the complainants, hear the parties and receive their submissions. Then the agency will make a decision based on the guidelines and criteria included in the legislation. The agency will be able to order corrective action. The agency will have the authority to intervene, which is not the case right now.