{"id":4513,"date":"2013-02-28T11:02:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2013-02-28T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T10:47:58","slug":"french-law-for-drivers-to-carry-breathalyser-postponed-indefinetely-not-1313-as-previous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/french-law-for-drivers-to-carry-breathalyser-postponed-indefinetely-not-1313-as-previous\/","title":{"rendered":"French Law for drivers to carry breathalyser postponed indefinitely (not 1\/3\/13 as previous)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The law for motorists to carry a single use breathalyser has been delayed\u00a0indefinitely\u00a0(it was already pushed back from Nov 2012 to Mar 2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This from www.fleetdirectory.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

A law which requires all motorists to carry a breathalyser in their vehicle at all times when driving in France has been delayed indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Drivers in France (including motorcyclists, but not moped riders) have been encouraged to buy a single-use NF approved breathalyser for around 12 months. Anyone failing to adhere to the law would have been hit with an \u20ac11 fine from March 1.<\/p>\n

That will no longer be the case after the French Minister of Interior decided to permanently postpone the law.<\/p>\n

Enforcement of the law had already been pushed back once before from November 2012 due to stock shortages in certain regions.<\/p>\n

Neil Greig, Director of Policy and Research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, was curious to how the law would effect drink driving in France.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe law for carrying breathalysers will no longer be enforced through fines, but in order to comply with the law we still recommend that you keep a breathalyser kit in the car whenever you\u2019re travelling to or through France,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The legal limit in France is 50 mg per 100 ml of blood, lower than in the UK\u2019s 80mg limit.<\/p>\n

It was hoped that drivers in France would carry out a breath test on themselves before getting behind the wheel, leading to fewer accidents caused by drivers over the legal alcohol limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The law for motorists to carry a single use breathalyser has been delayed\u00a0indefinitely\u00a0(it was already pushed back from Nov 2012 to Mar 2013) This from www.fleetdirectory.co.uk A law which requires all motorists to carry a breathalyser in their vehicle at all times when driving in France has been delayed indefinitely. Drivers in France (including motorcyclists, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}