Commercial development authorisation may not be issued for a commercial development project the implementation of which results in the artificial development of the land.
For the purposes of V of Article L. 752-6, a commercial development project is deemed to result in soil artificialisation if its implementation results, on the cadastral parcel or parcels on which it is located, in an increase in the area of artificialised land, within the meaning of ninth paragraph of Article L. 101-2-1 of the French Planning Code, compared with the state of these same plots on 23 August 2021.