Tesla's FSD Rollout in Europe Stalls as EU Panel Pushes Decision to December

Tesla’s push to bring its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software to roads across the European Union has hit another delay. When the bloc’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) gathers on 6 October, the agenda will only set aside a brief window for continued talks on the Dutch application — no vote is scheduled.

Because the committee will not meet again until December, that month now marks the earliest realistic moment for a union-wide ruling. Tesla had earlier pointed to the October session as a possible decision date, so the shift represents a fresh setback for the company’s European roadmap.

The regulatory path began in April, when the Dutch road authority RDW issued a provisional EU type approval under Article 39 of Regulation 2018/858 — a mechanism reserved for technologies not yet fully addressed by existing rules. Seven member states have since honored that approval on their own roads: the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. Combined, they account for roughly 12% of the EU population, far short of the qualified majority needed — at least 15 of 27 states covering 65% of the population.

That leaves the big markets holding the key. France, Germany, Italy and Spain have yet to follow the Dutch lead. Authorities have flagged concerns over speed-limit compliance and driver-attention monitoring. Sweden reportedly favors rejecting the application while Tesla permits setting speeds above posted limits, and Nordic regulators have also questioned winter-road behavior. Tesla counters with internal safety data claiming FSD (Supervised) was involved in accidents 4.1 times less often than manually driven Teslas over 100 million kilometers — figures the company has not had independently verified.