After municipal decrees, taken in particular in Besançon, forcing air-conditioned stores to close their doors, the government wants to be exemplary. It announces the generalization of this device throughout France and the tightening of the rules on illuminated advertising.
The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, announced on July 24 in the columns of the Journal du Dimanche (JDD), forthcoming decrees to force air-conditioned stores to close their doors. She also wants to reduce illuminated advertising. It will be inspired by already existing regulations applied to brands.
“In the coming days, I will issue two decrees: the first generalizes the ban on illuminated advertisements regardless of the size of the city between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.” et “the second prohibits shops from having their doors open while the air conditioning and heating are working“, specifies the minister to the JDD.
Cities, such as Besançon or Paris, have taken municipal decrees since mid-July 2022, so that air-conditioned stores close their doors, under penalty of a fine. This measure will be generalized throughout the country by the government. Leave the doors open to shops, “ it’s 20% more consumption and it’s absurd “, Reports Agnès Pannier-Runacher at the microphone of RMC.
The government provides a salty note for bad students: up to 750 euros fine. Initially, it will rely on information and education for traders. To justify this practice, merchants explain that a shop with closed doors would hinder the customer from crossing the threshold of their shop.
The rules for advertisements and neon signs will also become stricter. The regulations have existed since 2013 but they are still not sanctioned.
This regulation prohibits between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. the lighting of billboards and signs in towns of less than 800,000 inhabitants. In the streets of Dijon, some do not respect the rule. By surveying the city center at night, it is easy to see that about one in ten signs remain lit.
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The ministry did not specify the content of the next decree. He explains that this must lead to a harmonization of the rules, without specifying concretely how the controls and sanctions will be implemented. “The contours will be specified” when the decree comes out. “The idea is really that it should be applicable now“, announces Agnès Pannier-Runacherle.
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