{"id":21242,"date":"2026-05-08T20:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/bac-grens-belgie-alcohol-rijden\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:37:42","slug":"bac-border-belgium-alcohol-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/bac-border-belgium-alcohol-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the BAC limit in Belgium and what does it mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) or blood alcohol content determines whether you can be criminally prosecuted for drunk driving. Novex Advocaten explains the Belgian limits.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The legal boundaries in Belgium<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For regular drivers, less than 0.22 mg\/l in exhaled air (or 0.5 promille in blood) is permissible. Between 0.22 and 0.35 mg\/l is alcohol intoxication. More than 0.35 mg\/l is intoxication. Stricter standards apply to professional drivers.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What changes with the new category of directors?<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A stricter limit of 0.09 mg\/l of exhaled alveolar air (0.2 promille) applies to professional drivers. That limit does not apply to novice drivers: they are subject to the ordinary limit of 0.22 mg\/l, but face a stricter regime when it comes to reinstatement examinations.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Novex Advocaten: 0484 99 22 72<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/lawyer-traffic-law\/\">Traffic Lawyer Brussels<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/contact\/\">Contact Novex Advocaten<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Call: <a href=\"tel:+32484992272\">0484 99 22 72<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:asfour@novexadvocaten.be\">asfour@novexadvocaten.be<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) of het alcoholgehalte in het bloed bepaalt of u strafrechtelijk vervolgd kunt worden voor rijden onder invloed. Novex Advocaten legt de Belgische grenswaarden uit. De wettelijke grenzen in Belgi\u00eb Voor gewone bestuurders geldt: minder dan 0,22 mg\/l in de uitgeademde lucht (of 0,5 promille in het bloed) is toegelaten. Tussen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verkeersrecht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22692,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions\/22692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}