Are you entitled to drive a vehicle if the blood alcohol concentration in your body exceeds 0.2 ‰?

The photo shows bottles of wine and whisky and glasses. You are not allowed to drive a vehicle when your blood alcohol concentration exceeds 0.2 per mille - the state after drinking alcohol starts at this limit, and driving in this state is prohibited. The answer is: no.

The Road Traffic Act prohibits a person from driving a vehicle when intoxicated, after drinking alcohol or after taking a substance that acts similarly to alcohol. The Act on Upbringing in Sobriety and Counteracting Alcoholism states that the state after drinking alcohol exists when the alcohol content in the blood is from 0.2 to 0.5 per mille or in exhaled breath from 0.1 to 0.25 mg per 1 dm3, and intoxication - when it exceeds 0.5 per mille or 0.25 mg per 1 dm3. Driving after drinking alcohol is a petty offence, and driving while intoxicated is a crime. The value of 0.2 per mille is very little - in a slim person, one small beer can produce it, and alcohol from the evening stays in the blood until the morning, because the body burns about 0.1 per mille per hour. If you have been drinking, you leave the car, and before driving in the morning you check yourself with a breathalyser.

Legal basis: Art. 45 para. 1 point 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); Art. 46 para. 2 and 3 of the Act on Upbringing in Sobriety and Counteracting Alcoholism; Art. 87 § 1 of the Code of Petty Offences; Art. 178a § 1 of the Criminal Code