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The government will lower the blood alcohol limit for the first three years

by AI | 23.Aug 2024 | Europe in brief AI

17-year-olds should be able to drive without a companion, and the blood alcohol limit should be lowered for the first three years, according to the proposal.

17-year-olds should be able to drive without a companion, and the alcohol limit should be lowered for the first three years, the proposal states.

The blood alcohol limit of 0.5 should not apply for the first three years after obtaining a driver’s license.

Instead, there should be “de facto zero tolerance” towards alcohol.

This is one of the measures in the government’s rural district proposal, which will be presented on Thursday at a press conference in Skælskør.

“We do this because road safety is something we take very, very seriously,” says Minister for Cities and Rural Districts Morten Dahlin (V) at the press conference.

As already announced, the government also wants 17-year-olds with a driver’s license to be able to drive without a companion during a limited time frame between 5 and 20 o’clock.

This should make transportation to, for example, work, apprenticeship, or school easier for young people in rural districts.

“We call it freedom with responsibility, and we have full confidence that the youth can handle it. Especially because we are tightening zero tolerance on drunk driving,” says Morten Dahlin.

The government’s rural district proposal contains a wide range of measures on everything from mobility and green transition to retail and education.

Tourism is also in focus in the proposal.

Business Minister Morten Bødskov (S) says that Denmark should have more tourism without it becoming “mass tourism.”

“We need to have more tourism, we need to extend the season,” he says.

The government will, among other things, provide opportunities for the allocation of 2500 new summer house plots and convert redundant buildings for tourism purposes.

According to the government, citizens in rural districts today also have “less access to the same kinds of winter bathing facilities as in the cities.” This is because requirements for an adopted local plan make the establishment of, for example, a sauna a “time-consuming process.”

Therefore, the government will “make it easier” to establish winter bathing facilities “by the coast and along lakes and rivers,” according to the proposal.

The proposal does not include an overall financial framework for the measures.