A Czech citizen has filed an official e-petition on the Czech government portal asking the Ministry of Transportation to expedite the national adoption of Tesla’s FSD Supervised system — filed just four days after the Netherlands became the first EU country to grant the technology regulatory approval.
The Petition
Registered on April 14, 2026 on portal.gov.cz (petition number 1674), the petition calls for the accelerated acceptance of the FSD Supervised approval into Czech operating conditions. Within days of publication, it gathered 557 signatures, and it remains open until October 14, 2026.
The petition directly references the Dutch RDW type approval granted on April 10 and requests that the Ministry of Transport recognise it nationally — a step EU member states can take individually under existing mutual recognition rules without requiring a full regulatory review of their own.
Czech Legal Framework Is Already in Place
The timing is well-chosen. In April 2025, the Czech President signed an amendment to the country’s traffic law, effective January 1, 2026, that legalises SAE Level 3 conditional automation on Czech roads. Under the new framework, liability for incidents during automated operation shifts to the vehicle manufacturer rather than the driver — provided the driver has not ignored a takeover request.
“If the car is driving itself, the human is not responsible, unless they ignore a takeover request,” describes the core liability principle introduced by the amendment.
However, that legal framework has no approved system to activate it. FSD Supervised, which Tesla and the Dutch RDW classify as a Level 2 driver assistance system under UN Regulation R-171, received EU type approval on April 10. The Dutch approval is the first of its kind in the EU and is directly referenced in the Czech petition.
Czech Republic Has No Official Position Yet
According to the FSD EU regulatory tracker, Czech Republic currently has no public statement on whether it will adopt the Dutch approval. It sits alongside Germany, France, Austria, and 19 other member states that have not yet formally responded.
Only the Netherlands has granted national approval to date. Belgium is listed as strongly supportive. Germany, France, and Italy are expected to act within four to eight weeks of the April 10 approval.
For full EU-wide coverage, a vote at the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) is expected in May or June 2026. A successful vote would extend the approval automatically across all member states.
Czech Owners Already Had a Taste
Czech Tesla owners are not entirely unfamiliar with FSD. Tesla ran supervised demonstration drives in Prague and Brno from February 9 through March 31, 2026, giving owners first-hand experience of the system. Those rides were strictly demos — FSD Supervised is not yet commercially available to Czech buyers.
The petition aims to change that by prompting the Ministry of Transport to recognise the RDW decision rather than waiting for either individual neighbouring countries to act first or the broader TCMV vote to conclude.
How to Support the Petition
Czech Tesla owners and EV supporters can sign the petition at portal.gov.cz/e-petice/1674. Czech petitions with sufficient public support typically generate a written response from the responsible ministry.