Overview
- The Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles will not vote on an EU‑wide approval at its October 6 meeting because the draft agenda allocates only a 25‑minute “continuation of discussions,” making December the next realistic opportunity, according to EU documents reported Friday.
- The Dutch vehicle authority RDW granted a national Article 39 type approval for Tesla’s FSD Supervised in April and has asked the European Commission to convert that national exemption into a bloc‑wide authorisation.
- Seven EU states have so far recognised the Dutch approval for use on their roads—Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium, Slovenia and Czechia—covering about 53 million people or roughly 12 percent of the EU population.
- An EU‑wide authorisation needs a qualified majority of 15 countries representing 65 percent of the bloc’s population, so the positions of large markets such as France, Germany, Italy and Spain will decide the outcome.
- Tesla has published fleet safety figures claiming fewer crashes, but independent tests and national regulators have raised concrete safety concerns, including a Brussels group’s finding that the system exceeded 30 km/h limits in 55 percent of the segments tested and Sweden’s objections over speed and driver attention.