Bavaria

Art.11a Sky spotlights and lighting systems
1 Interference with the insect fauna through artificial lighting in outdoor areas must be avoided. 2 Sky spotlights and devices with similar effects are not permitted. 3 When setting up lighting systems outdoors, the effects on the insect fauna, in particular their impairment and damage, must be checked and the objectives of species protection must be taken into account. 4 Lighting in the immediate vicinity of protected landscape components and biotopes must only be approved by the responsible authority or with their consent in exceptional cases.

Article 9. Avoidable light emissions: After 11 p.m. and until dawn, it is prohibited to illuminate the facades of public buildings unless this is necessary for reasons of public safety or prescribed by or on the basis of legal regulations. Illuminated or light-emitting advertising systems are prohibited in outdoor areas. The municipality can allow exceptions to sentence 1 until 11 p.m. at the latest. Restaurants and commercial establishments that are permissibly established at the site of the service, provided that there is a significant need for this in consideration of the requirement to avoid emissions.