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The Council would like to point out that, from a general point of view, in the conclusions that the Council adopted after its meetings of 4 and 5 April 2001 on a recommendation from the European Commission on the maximum permitted blood-alcohol content for drivers of motorised vehicles, the Council encouraged the Commission to monitor closely and evaluate the effects of its recommendation for a period of three years, paying specific attention to the proposals in the recommendation on legal blood-alcohol content and, if appropriate, submit new legislation in that respect. Up until now, the Council has not been informed of the outcome of such an evaluation.
That being so, the Council underlines that these conclusions do not call specifically for the introduction of a maximum permitted blood-alcohol content of 0.2 mg for professional drivers. Furthermore, the Council would like to inform the honourable Member that it does not have any information on how many Member States have introduced the aforementioned BAC levels so far.
However, the Council would like to draw the honourable Member's attention to the Commission recommendation of 6 April 2004 on enforcement in the field of road safety, which, in Recommendation 6, calls for an intensified application of random breath testing with an alcohol screening device as a leading principle for surveillance of drink driving.
The Council wants to ensure the honourable Member of its strong and ongoing commitment to improving road safety and to tackling all potential sources of road accident fatalities. In this context it refers to the Council conclusions on road safety from June and December last year, both of which explicitly refer to stricter enforcement, in particular seatbelt use, speeding and drink driving.
In the light of this ongoing commitment the Council had an exchange of views during its meeting on 9 and 10 December 2004 and adopted the Council conclusions on road safety, in which it agreed on the need to focus road safety policies in four important areas, namely enforcement and best practices, vehicle safety, improving safety on European roads and funding road safety.
In this context the Council underlined that, with regard to road safety enforcement, priority should be given, notably, to driver behaviour that causes high accident risks or could have severe consequences such as driving under the influence of alcohol."@en1
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