In built-up areas

Within agglomerations, advertising is allowed.

By exception, advertising is forbidden at the following locations:

• On the trees
• On plantations, transport and electrical distribution poles, telecommunication poles, public lighting installations
• On public facilities relating to road, rail, inland waterway, sea or air traffic
• On the fences that are not blind
• On cemetery and public garden walls
• On the walls of buildings except when these walls are blind or have at least one opening with a unit area of less than 0,50 m²
• Immovable property classified or registered under historical monuments
• On natural monuments and in the classified or registered sites
• Within 100 meters and in the field of visibility of buildings with an aesthetic, historic or picturesque character
• In the perimeter of remarkable heritage sites
• In national parks, regional natural parks and nature reserves
• In the special areas of conservation and special protection areas.

In addition, the light advertising shall be prohibited in agglomerations of less than 10,000 inhabitants not being part of a urban unit more than 100,000 inhabitants. It is also prohibited in urban areas, regardless of the yearnumber of inhabitants, when affixed to a vehicle used as an advertising medium.

Finally, when it is non-luminous and settled to the ground, advertising is also forbidden in the following locations:

• In agglomerations of less than 10 000 inhabitants not forming part of a urban unit more than 100,000 inhabitants
• In wooded areas (woods, forests, parks) classified by a local city planning plan
• In the areas to be protected because of the quality of the sites, natural environments, landscapes and their aesthetic or ecological interest.