lighting standard

The presented law establishes a regulatory framework for addressing light pollution in the country, aiming to improve the quality of human life and wildlife by preventing health risks, promoting energy efficiency, ensuring road safety, and avoiding landscape alteration. The law applies to various sources of light pollution, including lighting from sports, industrial, productive, and service activities, as well as outdoor advertising elements and public road lighting. It outlines obligations for different entities, including owners of outdoor advertising elements, electrical energy distribution concessionaires, and owners of sports, industrial, productive, and service activities, and includes provisions for regulatory functions, monitoring, control, and sanctions.

The country develops and adopts standards for lighting in residential areas and in public places. Article 37: indicates the need to limit noise, light and heat which adversely affect the surrounding environment and employees. Article 85: Everyone should follow environmental lighting standards and should reduce lighting according to permitted levels.

This regulation was adopted in 2012 and was at the beginning applied only in the Atacama, Antofagasta and Coquimbo regions (north). In 2023, new amendments were approved, extending this regulation to the entire national territory, including new technical requirements and the incorporation of biodiversity as an object of protection.