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The Legal
Limit for Driving
The legal blood alcohol limit for driving is 80 milligrammes
of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood (80mg%) equivalent
to 35 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath,
or 107 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of urine.
No other country in the EU has a higher limit than this,
and in some it is lower.
Drink
Drive Limits and Penalties in the European Union (3)
| |
| Limit
mg% |
Disqualification
(maximum) |
Prison
Sentence (maximum) |
| Austria
|
50 |
1
month |
Up
to 3 months/ 3 years (if fatal) |
|
| Belgium |
50 |
8
days - 5 years |
3
months |
|
| Denmark |
50 |
24
- 30 months |
Nil
|
|
| Germany |
50 |
6
months - 5 years |
5
years (if fatal) |
|
| Greece |
50 |
3
- 6 months |
1
- 12 months |
|
| Finland |
80 |
3
- 6 months |
1
- 12 months |
|
| France |
50 |
1
month - 1 year |
2
months - 2 years |
|
| Ireland |
80 |
1
year |
6
months |
|
| Italy |
80 |
15
days - 1 year |
1
- 6 months |
|
| Luxembourg |
80 |
3
months - 15 years |
1
day - 3 years |
|
| Netherlands |
50 |
6
months - 10 years |
3
months - 3 years |
|
| Portugal |
50 |
15
days - 1 year |
Nil
|
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| Spain* |
50 |
3
months - 5 years |
1
- 6 months |
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| Sweden |
20 |
3
months - 3 years |
1
month - 2 years |
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| UK |
80 |
1
year - 18 months |
6
months |
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In
India Driving under the influence of alcohol/drugs invites
a Penalty Rs. 2000/- and or imprisonment (6 months)
*From January 1999, 50 for car drivers
and 30 for drivers of heavy goods vehicles and public transport
vehicles.
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