urban planning

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.

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.

This Ordinance prescribes the content, format and method of delivery of the lighting plan (hereinafter: the Plan) and the action plan for the construction and/or reconstruction of outdoor lighting (hereinafter: the Action Plan), the method of informing the public about the Plans and Action Plans, the method of submitting data for the needs of the environmental and nature protection information system, as well as other related issues.

This Ordinance prescribes the method of measuring environmental illuminance, the content and method of creating a report on the measurement performed, and the method of measurement to determine the level of illuminance.

This Regulation provides for mandatory methods and conditions of enlightenment control; determines lighting zones and protection zones (classification, see Annex), maximum permissible lighting values, conditions for selection and installation of lamps, energy efficiency criteria, conditions and maximum permissible values of correlated color temperature of light sources, obligations of local self-government units, in relation to prescribed standards. This text is divided into four Chapters as follows: I. General provisions; II. Environmental enlightenment management standards; III. Ways and conditions of enlightenment management; IV. Final provisions.