Road safety, fitness to drive and responsibility of the driver
The final domain tests judgement and legal responsibility: what you may have in your blood, what your health allows, what your licence covers and what you must do when something goes wrong. Questions are often scenario-based rather than factual recall.
Alcohol and other substances
Finland's limit is 0.5 per mille in blood (0.22 mg/l in breath); above 1.2 per mille (0.53 mg/l) the offence is aggravated drink driving. There is no separate tolerance for a 16-year-old A1 holder, but balance and reaction time degrade well below the legal limit - the safe figure is zero. The body clears roughly 0.1–0.15 per mille per hour and nothing speeds that up, so a heavy night can still leave you over the limit the next morning. Prescribed medicine that impairs you counts exactly like alcohol.
Health, eyesight and fatigue
Category A requires binocular visual acuity of at least 0.5, with or without correction; if you need glasses or lenses, wear them while riding. Declare conditions that affect control - epilepsy, diabetes, heart disease, sleep apnoea - to the authorities. Fatigue, cold and dehydration slow reaction as much as a small amount of alcohol.
Responsibility and the law
Traffic insurance is compulsory; riding uninsured is an offence and leaves you personally liable. Motorcycles are not subject to periodic inspection in Finland, so roadworthiness is entirely your responsibility. A helmet is mandatory for rider and passenger. If you are involved in an accident you must stop, warn other traffic, call 112, give first aid within your ability and stay. Penalties include day fines and driving bans.
Worked example
A friend with only a B licence asks to try your 125. In Finland a B licence carries moped (AM) rights but not an A1 motorcycle, so he would be riding without a licence. Say no: your insurance position collapses, and handing the machine over is your responsibility, not his alone. The consequences can include day fines and a driving ban.
Traps
Treating 0.5 per mille as a target rather than a ceiling. Riding the morning after a heavy night. Ignoring a medicine's warning about driving. Assuming a car licence covers a light motorcycle. Leaving the scene of an accident because nobody was hurt.