France

Subject: ban on all illuminated or digital advertising, in the event of a threat to the security of electricity supply.

This decree sets the technical requirements concerning the design and operation of exterior lighting installations intended to promote the safety of movement in public and private spaces, accent lighting light of heritage as defined in article L. 1 of the heritage code, of the built environment as well as parks and gardens, lighting of outdoor or discoverable sports equipment, lighting of non-residential buildings, covering both the interior lighting emitted towards the exterior of these buildings and the lighting of the facades of buildings (this last category does not concern street lamps for public lighting of communities affixed to facades which are intended to illuminate the roads), lighting of uncovered or semi-covered parking lots, event lighting, lighting of outdoor construction sites. These requirements may vary depending on the location of these installations: in built-up areas, outside built-up areas or in the natural areas listed in the appendix to Article R. 583-4 of the Environmental Code as well as in observation sites. astronomical mentioned in the same article.

This Decree applies to lighting installations in non-residential buildings, covering both interior lighting emitted towards the exterior of these buildings and the illumination of building facades, excluding lighting installations intended to ensure the protection of property when they are controlled by movement or intrusion detection devices. Introduced several measures, including curfews.

The decree aims to protect the living environment by limiting outdoor advertising while allowing the use of new means. The act reduces the formats of wall advertising devices, depending on the size of the towns, up to four square meters in towns with less than 10,000 inhabitants. It establishes a density rule for classic devices sealed on the ground and wall along roads open to public traffic, by limiting one advertising device per 80 meter strip on private property and another on public property. It specifies the special and derogatory rules applicable in airports and train stations, in order to take into account their specificity in terms of size and operation, in particular for larger airports. It establishes an obligation to turn off light devices: light advertisements must be turned off at night, between one a.m. and six a.m., except for airports and urban units with more than 800,000 inhabitants, for which mayors will issue the applicable rules. Illuminated signs will follow the same rules. Illuminated advertisements, particularly digital ones, are specifically regulated with regard to their surface area, their luminance, their energy consumption and their anti-glare device. Advertising on tarpaulins is specifically regulated. Construction site tarpaulins may include advertising on half of their surface. Advertising banners must respect a density rule. Local advertising regulations, municipal adaptations of national rules, can henceforth only be more restrictive than the national rule. They will be developed, revised and modified according to the rules applicable to local urban planning plans.

The decree defines the lighting installations and the equipment of which they can be constituted concerned by the regulations. It specifies the conditions under which its requirements can be adapted to the characteristics of the areas where these installations are located. It gives competence to the minister responsible for the environment and the prefect to prohibit or limit the operation over time of certain lighting installations. Finally, it gives the competent authority the possibility of sanctioning infractions of the regulations with an administrative fine. Provide several approaches to light pollution mitigation according to various types of lighting installations.