Operation closed doors in Paris.
The municipality has started to impose fines on businesses that do not comply with the new obligation to keep doors and bay windows “closed” when the air conditioning cools their stores, revealed Le Parisien.
Since July 25, a decree signed by the town hall of the capital provides for a fine of 150 euros maximum for commercial or service establishments leaving their doors open when the heating or air conditioning is working inside.
This is a “measure to combat energy waste”, according to the administrative decision.
Soon all of France
The verbalizations began on Wednesday in the very commercial and touristic rue de Rivoli, in the 4th arrondissement, but “the whole system is in all the Parisian arrondissements”, specifies the town hall.
“The previous two weeks, we made traders aware of the future verbalization.
The town hall did not indicate how many establishments had already been fined but every day, two patrols of the Parisian municipal police are dedicated to this.
The decree does not apply "to restaurants or drinking establishments with a regularly authorized outdoor terrace".
On Sunday July 24, the Minister for Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher announced her intention to generalize this obligation for air-conditioned stores to close their doors throughout the territory, but the decrees have not yet been published.
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