Europe's Tesla FSD Vote Is Not on the 6 October Agenda. The Committee Next Meets in December.

Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) will not get its European vote on 6 October. The draft agenda for the meeting that was supposed to decide it does not contain one.

What the agenda actually says

The Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles — TCMV, the body that can extend the Dutch approval across the bloc — meets for the 119th time on 6 October 2026 in Brussels, from 10:00 to 15:00. The draft agenda, circulated on 11 September, gives the Dutch request twenty-five minutes, from 11:45 to 12:10, under the heading "Continuation of discussions on request of the Netherlands for an Art. 39 authorisation".

Two things are missing from that line. There is no vote. And Tesla is not named.

The committee does not convene again until December. That is now the earliest date on which an EU-wide FSD authorisation could be decided.

Tesla had pointed at 6 October

On 1 September, Tesla Europe posted that FSD was approved in five EU countries, that more than 70,000 customers were using it, and that an EU-wide vote could happen on 6 October. The same week, the company published its Article 39 safety dashboard — eight studies drawing on more than 3 billion kilometres — timed five weeks ahead of a vote that is not on the agenda.

The arithmetic has not moved enough

Authorisation needs a qualified majority: 15 of 27 member states representing at least 65% of the EU population. Seven countries now recognise the Dutch RDW authorisation nationally.

Between them they hold roughly 53 million people — about 12% of the Union. Two of the seven arrived this month after a three-month pause, and Czechia's recognition reversed the refusal it issued in July.

The problem is on the other side of the ledger. Germany, Italy and Spain have not recognised the approval, and France has refused outright. Those four countries together are close to 58% of the EU population — enough that the 65% threshold cannot be reached without at least one of them.

The sticking point is still speed

Sweden has asked the EU to reject the application unless the derogation letting the car exceed posted limits is dropped. That objection got harder to wave away this month: a Brussels road-safety test found FSD exceeding the limit in 55% of the 30 km/h segments it drove.

What changes for owners

Nothing today. FSD (Supervised) remains legal in the seven countries that have recognised it and unavailable in the other twenty. A December vote, if one is called, puts any EU-wide launch into 2027 — and December is the earliest possible date, not a scheduled one. "Continuation of discussions" is what a committee schedules when it is not ready to count hands.