The EU won’t vote on Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” on October 6. The draft agenda for the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) meeting lists only a 25-minute “continuation of discussions” on the Dutch request to extend its FSD approval EU-wide.
The committee doesn’t meet again until December, so that’s now the earliest a Tesla FSD EU vote can happen. And Tesla had been pointing to October 6.
What the agenda shows
The European Commission’s DG GROW published the draft agenda for the 119th TCMV meeting, dated September 11. The meeting runs from 10:00 to 15:00 in Brussels.
Item 3 reads: “Continuation of discussions on request of the Netherlands for an Art. 39 authorisation.” It’s slotted from 11:45 to 12:10, right before lunch. Tesla isn’t named, and no vote is listed.
Article 39 of the EU type-approval regulation (2018/858) is the exemption path for new technologies that don’t fit existing rules. The Dutch regulator RDW used it to approve FSD Supervised in the Netherlands in April, and it’s now asking the Commission to turn that national authorisation into an EU-wide one.
The rest of the day goes to Euro 7, hydrogen engines for non-road machinery, and heavy-duty CO2 and trailer rules. The only other autonomy item is an AOB update on secondary legislation for large-series automated driving systems and alignment with the AI Act.
Another Tesla FSD timeline slips
On September 1, Tesla Europe posted on X that FSD was approved in five EU countries, used by more than 70,000 customers, and that an EU-wide vote could happen on October 6.
It won’t. And that’s not the first date to slip. Last November, Tesla said it expected Dutch approval in February 2026, which the RDW denied at the time. The target then moved to April 10, which Tesla did hit. Musk then talked about EU-wide availability by summer 2026, but the TCMV discussed the file in June and didn’t vote.
To pass, the Dutch request needs a qualified majority: 15 of the EU’s 27 member states, representing at least 65% of the bloc’s population.
So far, Denmark, Belgium, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, and Czechia have recognized the Dutch approval nationally. With the Netherlands, that’s seven countries. Together, they account for roughly 53 million people, or about 12% of the EU population.
The opposition hasn’t moved
The bigger problem for Tesla is that the objections raised this spring are still on the table.
Sweden told the EU to reject FSD unless Tesla removes the ability to set the system above the posted speed limit, and Nordic regulators also raised concerns about icy roads and driver attention. France has refused to recognize the Dutch approval, citing speeding and driver attention in cities.
The latest independent data doesn’t help. This week, a Brussels pedestrian safety group found FSD sped in 55% of the 30 km/h segments it tested, in a country that already approved the system.
France is already opposed, though the transport minister reached out to Musk, and Germany, Italy, and Spain haven’t recognized the Dutch approval. Without at least some of those four, which together hold about 58% of the EU population, the 65% threshold is out of reach.
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