European regulators will not vote on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system on October 6, according to the European Commission’s draft agenda for the meeting.
The document schedules only further talks on the Dutch approval.
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Dated September 11 and registered by the Commission on September 14, the draft agenda covers the 119th meeting of the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV), set for October 6 from 10:00 to 15:00 in Brussels.
Item three reads “Continuation of discussions on request of the Netherlands for an Art. 39 authorisation.”
The Commission allotted 25 minutes to the item, from 11:45 to 12:10.
Neither Tesla nor FSD appears by name in the document.
The Netherlands’ Article 39 request concerns the exemption Dutch regulator RDW granted the system in April.
Other items on the agenda include Euro 7 implementation work, a draft implementing decision authorizing Sweden to grant type approvals for non-road mobile machinery engines running on diesel and hydrogen, and a draft amendment on heavy-duty vehicle CO2 emissions.
The document is labelled a draft and remains subject to approval at the start of the meeting.
Date Never Confirmed
October 6 had been widely cited as the date of a bloc-wide decision, including by outlets covering Tesla’s September 1 safety dashboard.
Tesla’s own post on the dashboard did not mention a vote or a date.
Finland’s transport agency Traficom wrote in June that “the vote is expected to take place in October 2026.”
The Commission had not confirmed a vote.
Germany’s transport ministry signalled a narrower scope in a September 14 letter. Christian Hirte, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport, wrote that the committee would “deliberate” on possible EU-wide recognition in October.
His letter did not say a vote would be held.
Third Meeting Without a Decision
October 6 will mark the third committee session to take up the Dutch file without voting on it.
RDW presented its assessment to the TCMV on May 5.
The committee discussed it again on June 30 without a vote, and RDW said on July 30 it could not give a timeline.
RDW granted the approval on April 10 under Article 39 of EU Regulation 2018/858, an exemption route for new technologies.
Tesla had said in November 2025 that the regulator committed to approval in February 2026.
RDW publicly denied making any commitment, and the first Dutch customers received the software in April.
The approval remains provisionally valid only in the Netherlands.
If the Commission refuses authorization, Article 39 provides for the provisional approval to be revoked six months after that decision.
Seven National Recognitions
Member states can recognise the Dutch approval on their own territory while the EU process continues.
Lithuania did so on May 20 and Estonia on May 29, both without their own testing.
Denmark followed on June 9 and Belgium on June 10, after 5,000 km of testing in Flanders.
Slovenia’s approval came on September 7.
Tesla said on September 21 that Czechia had approved the system, three months after the Czech transport ministry said it would await the European assessment rather than take a national route.
The Czech Ministry of Transport confirmed the recognition the same day.
“All the data and information now available have convinced us to follow the example of the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and other countries,” Minister Ivan Bednárik said.
Together, the seven countries account for less than 12.0% of the EU’s population. Germany, France, Italy and Spain have approved nothing.
Ireland has tied its decision to Brussels. Tesla said on Wednesday it is working with Irish authorities on approval, without giving a timeline.
Ireland’s Department of Transport told RTÉ in May that approval at EU level would make the system possible in Ireland.
Speed is Main Objection
EU-wide validity requires a qualified majority in the committee: at least 15 of the 27 member states, representing at least 65.0% of the bloc’s population.
Germany alone accounts for about 18.6%.
Germany’s Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) received the Dutch file on April 29 and has not set a decision date.
In his September 14 letter, Hirte wrote that the KBA is in contact with RDW and Tesla to make clear Germany’s position on the system exceeding speed limits by its own choice.
Sweden told the committee in an April 30 letter, reported by Reuters, to vote against the system unless Tesla removes its speed-offset function.
Norway, which sits outside the EU and does not vote in the committee, raised the same objection.
Finland has since described its overall view of the system as positive, while awaiting answers from Tesla on driver takeover when the system makes a sudden mistake, overtaking on high-curvature roads and driver monitoring in Finnish conditions.
French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said in July that the safety guarantees were “not yet sufficient” for authorisation in the system’s current form, citing its ability to exceed speed limits by up to 50% when surrounding traffic moves faster.
After a video call with Elon Musk on September 2, Tabarot said Tesla would supply two cars for French road tests.
Safety Data Under Scrutiny
Tesla’s September 1 dashboard claimed FSD was 4.1 times less likely to be involved in a crash than manual driving across 100 million km on EU roads.
Every dated measurement window in the dashboard submitted to regulators closes in 2025, before the European rollout the document is used to support.
A Reuters investigation in June found that most independent researchers it consulted called US-based crash comparisons Tesla showed Swedish and Dutch regulators misleading.
RDW has declined to publish its testing data, citing commercial secrecy.
Tesla ended one-time FSD purchases in Europe from May 21 and now sells the system by subscription.
The company offered two-month trials to owners in approved markets in August.
Six national approvals had yet to show a visible effect in European registration data as of September.
