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Road safety
Breathalyzer tests: what changes as of May 22
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If it is no longer mandatory to have a disposable alcohol test in your car, night establishments must now provide them to their customers or risk a higher ticket than before. The ignition interlock breathalyzer is an alternative to license suspension. That is what is provided for in an order in council issued in Official Journal of 21 May 2020.
At the Interdepartmental Road Safety Committee (IRB) on January 9, 2018, the Prime Minister announced several measures to reduce road deaths. On May 22, 2020, several of them enter into force with Decree No. 2020-605.
- End of the requirement to have a disposable alcohol test in your car.
- Strengthening the obligation of night establishments to provide them: since 2011, each night club or bar has to make chemical or electronic alcohol tests available to its customers. Now, the contravention for failure to comply with this obligation becomes fourth class and is worth a lump sum fine of €135.
- Start-up alcohol test as an alternative to license suspension: the maximum duration of the obligation to drive only a vehicle equipped with an ignition interlock (EAD) test when this measure is pronounced as an alternative to driving license suspension shall pass 6 months to 1 year.
Reminder
since the beginning of 2020, drivers who have committed a repeat alcohol-related driving offense can only drive a vehicle equipped with an alcohol ignition interlock (EAD), in addition to medical and psychological follow-up.
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