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Buenos Aires Declares Citywide Ban on Noisy Fireworks, Designates a ‘Calm Zone’

The city casts the measure as a public-health safeguard for vulnerable residents, animals, and the urban environment.

Overview

  • The resolution outlaws any pyrotechnic device with an audible effect across the entire city with no territorial exceptions.
  • All events and spectacles organized by the public sector are included, changing how official celebrations will be conducted.
  • The Environmental Protection Agency (APRA) must update the rules and establish controls over the sale and use of noise‑making pyrotechnics.
  • Silent or purely visual fireworks remain permitted, with narrow exceptions for distress signaling, security forces, and Civil Defense.
  • The move expands a 2020 framework that limited bans to zones near hospitals, ecological reserves, and certain parks, and it cites Article 26 of the City Constitution as legal support.