Blood alcohol limit
The blood alcohol limit is colloquially the maximum tolerated intoxication with alcohol in the most diverse areas of law by law or regulation givers or the case law .
General
If a certain level of the limit value of the blood alcohol concentration set differently in the different legal areas is exceeded, they trigger adverse legal consequences in criminal law , administrative offense law , traffic law , occupational safety , insurance law or liability law .
This is particularly important in criminal law with regard to driving under the influence of psychoactive substances and the inability to act . The alcohol limit is also of crucial importance in the area of sports law , for example doping in shooting sports .
Blood alcohol limit in traffic
Most European countries have alcohol limits for driving vehicles. Violations are often punished with fines of several hundred euros, in Poland according to ADAC up to 1,200 euros. In addition, you are usually not allowed to continue your journey. If the fine cannot be paid immediately, a vehicle security must be expected in some countries. Anyone who gets drunk or causes an accident while under the influence of drugs, possibly with injuries, also faces a prison sentence.
In Germany, motor vehicle drivers are at the latest 1.1 ‰ absolute inability to drive (from 0.3 ‰ relative inability to drive, if one is apparently no longer able to drive). Anyone who nevertheless drives a motor vehicle is liable to prosecution for being drunk in traffic and the driving license is withdrawn subject to a blocking period. From 1.6 ‰, the driver's license office will order an MPU to be carried out before a new driver's license is issued . In any case, you have committed an administrative offense from 0.5 ‰ and you are banned from driving ( Section 24a, Paragraph 1 of the Road Traffic Act ). A cyclist is absolutely unfit to drive from 1.6 ‰ at the latest (in the case of alcohol-related failure symptoms already from 0.3 ‰, as with cars). If the cyclist is the holder of a driving license, a traffic psychological report (MPU / "idiot test") and the associated withdrawal of the driving license are threatened.
history
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Court of Justice set a limit of 1.5 per mille in blood for the first time in 1953, above which, without further requirements, an administrative offense exists. On June 14, 1973, the German Bundestag passed the law on the maximum permissible alcohol concentration limit for the use of motor vehicles to 0.8 per mille and in 2001 the limit was reduced to 0.5 per mille.
From 1956 until reunification, there was a zero alcohol limit in the area of the GDR .
Others
In Switzerland, the 0.5 alcohol limit for rubber boat drivers was in effect from 2014 to 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ alcohol limits in Europe
- ↑ alcohol limits in Europe including penalties
- ↑ What you need to know about blood alcohol limits. In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Rinaldo Tibolla: Whether ship or rubber boat - the alcohol limit now also applies to rivers and lakes. aargauerzeitung.ch , May 12, 2014, accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ↑ The party continues from 2020 - no blood alcohol limit for Böötler anymore. srf.ch , May 1, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 .
