Driving license confiscated

If you drive a motor vehicle while you have too much alcohol, medication or drugs in your blood, you will be banned from driving.

If you have more alcohol in your blood than 0.8 per mille as a new driver or more than 1.3 per mille as an experienced driver, you will receive both a driving ban (forbidden to drive) and your license will be confiscated. Your driving license will also be confiscated if you refuse a breath or blood test.

Confiscation means the police will send your driving license to the public prosecutor. The public prosecutor will decide within 10 days whether your driving license will be confiscated or whether you will get it back. If the 10th day falls on a weekend or a public holiday, you will hear the decision on the first working day after that.

If you do not get your driving license back, you will be summoned to a Public Prosecution Service hearing or summoned to appear before the judge. At a Public Prosecution Service hearing, the public prosecutor imposes a sentence. At a court hearing, this is done by the judge.

Of course, when your driving license has been revoked, you may not drive any motor carriage for which a driving license is required.

Your driving license can be revoked not only after alcohol, drugs, or medication use but also if you have driven much too fast or exhibited dangerous behavior on the road.