Wine merchants, hypermarkets, grocery stores … All takeaway and online drinking establishments will be required to sell breathalyzers from July, in accordance with the Mobility Orientation Law (LOM) of 2019, announced , Wednesday, Road Safety.
“From 1er July 2021, take-out alcoholic beverage establishments will be required to offer breathalysers for sale near the department with the largest volume of alcoholic beverages ” or “Near the place of payment”, announced the delegation attached to the Ministry of the Interior in a press release. Until now, only nightclubs were forced to offer breathalysers for sale.
Nearly 50,000 operators (wine merchants, hypermarkets, supermarkets, grocery stores, drive-through sites, etc.) are affected by the measure, said Road Safety. Sites selling alcoholic beverages online will also have to comply.
Owners-harvesters offering drinks from their own harvest and temporary drinking establishments (fairs, shows and fairs) are exempt, because they are not subject to the take-out license.
Provided for by the mobility orientation law promulgated in December 2019, the article was the subject of a decree on March 30, published Wednesday April 7 to Official newspaper.
In detail, establishments will have to offer for sale “Chemical breathalyzers which are obligatory and as a possible complement to electronic breathalyzers” and “Have a minimum stock of ten or twenty-five breathalyzers, set according to the size of the alcohol departments”.
A preventive display on the importance of self-testing and mentioning the sale and location of alcohol tests in the establishment must be installed. Offenders are exposed to a fixed fine of 675 euros, which may be increased to 1,875 euros.
Currently, the authorized limit for the alcohol level in the blood is 0.5 grams of alcohol per liter of blood (g / L). For young drivers, the legal rate is 0.2 g / L.
Drunk driving, the second leading cause of death on the road after excessive speed, is involved in nearly a third of fatal accidents.