I en lang række EU-medlemsstater, heriblandt Det Forenede Kongerige, Italien, Irland og Luxembourg, er den tilladte alkoholpromille for førere af motorkøretøjer sat ved 0,8 mg/l. I Slovakiet og Ungarn, hvor det er forbudt at køre efter indtagelse af selv den mindste mængde alkohol, anses kørsel med en sådan spirituspromille i blodet for en alvorlig forseelse.
In many Member States - for example, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland and Luxembourg - the limit on the amount of alcohol that anyone driving a vehicle may have in their blood has been set at 0.8 mg/l. In Slovakia and Hungary, which do not allow anyone who has consumed even the smallest amount of alcohol to drive, any driver with that amount of alcohol in their blood would be committing a serious offence.