Educational Measure Alcohol and Traffic (EMA)

This compulsory course can be imposed on you if a police check reveals that you have been driving with alcohol. The aim of the course is to stop you from driving under the influence of alcohol. And that you can get back on the road safely as soon as possible. For yourself and your fellow road users. Because driving with alcohol in your blood is very dangerous.

This course is compulsory for the following people:

• For experienced drivers who have driven with a blood alcohol level between 1.0 and 1.8.
• For experienced drivers who have been stopped twice in the past five years for driving under the influence of alcohol. In which the blood alcohol content was higher than 0.5 once.
• For new drivers who have driven with a blood-alcohol level between 0.8 and 1.3.
• For new drivers who have been stopped for drink-driving twice in the past five years. In which the blood alcohol content was higher than 0.2 on one occasion.
• For any driver who refused to cooperate with the police breathalyzer once.

A new driver is already at this blood alcohol level after 4 or 5 glasses of alcoholic drink. For an experienced driver, it is after 5 or 6 glasses of alcoholic drink. You can see that driving with a few glasses of liquor at point 1 can be an expensive joke. But more importantly, driving with alcohol on can be life-threatening.

If you are convicted for the second time of driving with too much drink or drugs, or convicted of a combination of both drink and drugs behind the wheel, your driving license will automatically become invalid. You will then no longer be allowed to drive a motor vehicle. Then the ‘Recidivism rules for alcohol and drugs’ apply. You can read more about this later in the course.

This course costs about 1,200 euros.
You may continue to drive during the course. It is also possible that the judge or public prosecutor has imposed a driving ban. Then, of course, you will not be allowed to drive.

If you do not take this compulsory course, your driving license will be invalidated and you will not be allowed to drive again.