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From July 1, Parisian summer terraces will be able to welcome customers until midnight for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, compared to the usual 10 p.m.

The bars will be able to remain open on the nights of the opening and closing ceremonies, according to Paris town hall. 

Parisian summer terraces will be able to welcome customers until midnight, compared to 10 p.m. usually, during the summer of 2024 on the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and bars will be able to stay open on the nights of the opening and closing ceremonies, a the town hall told AFP on Saturday.

“From July 1, the summer terraces will be able to open until midnight during the Games,” PS Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced on Instagram on Friday evening, after receiving professionals from the sector to present them with the City medal.

Regulated in 2021 after the Covid-19 health crisis, during which Parisian bars could extend their terraces onto sidewalks or parking spaces upon simple declaration in order to compensate for losses linked to confinement, there are around 3,000 ephemeral terraces, which have become summer terraces. in the capital.

An “exceptional exemption” to serve until midnight

Establishments that have obtained authorization can install them from the beginning of April to the end of October and must stop serving at 10 p.m.

But this summer, "as part of the JOP (Olympic and Paralympic Games)", the lucky ones will benefit from an "exceptional exemption" to serve two hours more, "from July 1, 2024 and until the end of the JOP,” the town hall confirmed to AFP.

The Olympic Games will be held from July 26 to August 11, and the Paralympics from August 28 to September 8.

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Since 2021, the new terrace regulations have been the subject of criticism from local residents and elected officials, in particular the environmentalist allies of Anne Hidalgo, due to the excesses of certain bars not respecting the schedules or the locations.

But “since we removed most of the ephemeral terraces, we have had much fewer reports,” nightlife deputy Frédéric Hocquard told AFP on Saturday.

“I'm not saying that there is no abuse, I'm just saying that there is less of it,” added the elected environmentalist.

Frédéric Hocquard also indicated to AFP that Parisian bars which so wished could ask to exceptionally open all night, on the four evenings of the opening and closing ceremonies, on the model of July 14 or the March of the LGBT pride.