Wine Law

254 WINE LAW vehicle, with alcohol levels higher than those determined by regulation, from driving on the roads covered by the law. The regulatory development of this precept corresponds to Royal Decree 1428/2003, of 21 November, which approves the General Traffic Regulations for the application and development of the articulated text of the Law on Traffic, Circulation of Motor Vehicles and Road Safety, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 339/1990, of 2 March. Indeed, article 20 of this Regulation establishes that neither drivers of motor vehicles nor bicycles drivers with a level of alcholol in blood of more than 0.5 g/l or an alcohol level in exhaled air of more than 0.25 mg/l can circulate on the roads covered by the mentioned Law on Traffic (Royal Legislative Decree 6/2015, of 30 October). In the case of vehicles intended for the transport of goods with a maximum authorised mass greater than 3,500 kg and vehicles intended for the transport of passengers with more than nine seats, for public service, school and minors, dangerous goods, emergency services or special transport, drivers may not drive with a level of alcohol in blood of more than 0.3 g/l or alcohol in exhaled air of more than 0.15 mg/l. These same levels applying to drivers of any vehicle during the two years after obtaining their driver’s licence 22 . II.2.5. A DVERTISING Based on article 149(1)(27) SC (“basic rules of the press, radio and television regime and, in general, of all the media of social communication, without prejudice to the powers that in their development and execution correspond to the Autonomous Communities”), the General Courts approved Law 7/2010, of 31 March, General Audiovisual Communication. Its provisions apply – as stated in the sixth final provision – to all the Autonomous Communities, respecting, in any case, the exclusive and shared competences in matters of media of communication and self-organisation attributed to them by the respective Statutes of Autonomy. Article 18(3) prohibits: “c) Television commercial communication of alcoholic beverages with a level higher than twenty degrees. d) Television commercial communication of alcoholic beverages with a level below twenty degrees when it is broadcast outside the time slot 22 For these purposes, only the length of the driver’s licence shall be taken into account in the case of driving vehicles for which said licence is sufficient.