France will unify “by the end of the summer” rules banning billboards between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m., and will nationwide ban open doors of heated or air-conditioned businesses, the Health Ministry said on Monday. Energy Transition. in a new calendar.

Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher announced on July 24 at the Sunday newspaper two decrees “in the next few days”, but these will be ready by “late summer”, that is, by September 21, the ministry announced.

Although electricity and gas prices have soared to historic levels in Europe since the start of the war in Ukraine just six months ago, the country is preparing, like its neighbors, to implement sobriety measures before winter. that should also help fight global warming

stations and airports

The decree on luminous advertisements aims to harmonize the existing regulations that already force their extinction from 1 in the morning, but now differ according to the size of the agglomerations. Stations and airports should not be affected.

According to the Agency for the Environment and Energy Management (ADEME), a 2 m² digital LCD advertising screen consumes 2,049 kWh/year, that is, the equivalent of the average annual consumption of a home in lighting and electrical appliances (excluding heating).

The Citizen Convention for Climate, which was held between the end of 2019 and June 2020, at the initiative of Emmanuel Macron, had proposed a more ambitious objective to the Government: “the prohibition of advertising video screens in public space, transport public and at points of sale”, but his proposal was not accepted.

Regarding the prohibition of open doors in shops, it will now be applied de facto in the face of winter and heating, although the minister announced the measure in the heat of the heat wave, to fight against air-conditioned shops that open their doors in the summer, after several cities, including Lyon and Paris, had already banned this practice at the municipal level.