Reference texts on the 1% artistic
1% artistic
Decree no. 2002-677 of 29 April 2002 as amended, concerning the obligation to decorate public buildings and specifying the conditions for the award of contracts intended to satisfy this obligation, is the legal text which determines the scope of the 1% artistic (public buildings concerned, nature of artistic interventions).
Note: two ministries (Defense and Interior) have specified by a joint decree to the Ministry of Culture their constructions that are excluded from the scope of the 1% artistic.
Download the Ministry of Defence Order:
Download the decree of the Ministry of the Interior:
Public Order Code
Since the 1er April 2019, the new public order code sets out the procedures for the award of these procedures, in particular in Articles L2172-2 and R2172-7 to R2172-19.
The Public Order Code, which came into force on 1er April 2019, is available on the Légifrance website.