Light Educational Measure Alcohol and Traffic

This compulsory course can be imposed on you if a police check shows you have been driving with alcohol. The course aims to stop you from driving under the influence. And that you can get back on the road safely as soon as possible. For yourself and your fellow road users. Because driving with alcohol is very dangerous.

This course is compulsory for the following people:

• For experienced drivers who have driven with a blood-alcohol level between 0.8 and 1.0.
• For new drivers who have driven with a blood-alcohol level between 0.5 and 0.8.

A new driver is at this blood-alcohol level after only 2 or 3 glasses of an alcoholic drink. For an experienced driver, this is after 4 or 5 glasses of alcoholic drink. As you can see, driving with a few glasses of liquor at point 1 can be an expensive joke. But more importantly, driving with alcohol in your system can be life-threatening.

There is also a course on alcohol and traffic for people who have had a higher blood-alcohol level. You can read more about this course on the next page. Suppose you are convicted for the second time for driving with too much alcohol or drugs, or convicted for a combination of both alcohol and drugs behind the wheel. In that case, your driving license will automatically become invalid. You will then be prohibited from driving a motor vehicle. Then the ‘Recidivism rules for alcohol and drugs’ apply. You can read more about this later in the course.

This course costs about €800.
You may continue driving during the course. It is also possible that the judge or public prosecutor has imposed a driving ban. Then, of course, you will not be allowed to drive.

If you do not take this compulsory course, your driving license will be invalidated, and you will obviously not be allowed to drive again.