Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system now has approval in Slovenia. The company’s European division confirmed the news on September 7, 2026, and Slovenia is now the sixth country in the European Union to clear the driver assistance software for use on public roads.
The announcement came directly from the Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa account on X: “FSD Supervised now approved in Slovenia. Rollout will begin soon.” Tesla has not set an exact date for when drivers in Slovenia will get the feature.
Slovenia is the first new market added since early June. It follows almost two months without a fresh national approval, and some observers had started to wonder if the rollout was losing steam. Slovenia’s approval signals otherwise, and it puts the pipeline back in motion after a quiet summer.
Six countries, one foundation
With Slovenia added, FSD (Supervised) now has clearance in six countries:
- Netherlands – approved April 10, 2026, the first in the EU
- Lithuania
- Estonia
- Denmark – approved in June 2026
- Belgium – approved in June 2026, shortly after completing a mandatory 5,000 km road-testing requirement
- Slovenia – approved September 7, 2026
Every one of these approvals traces back to the same source. The Dutch vehicle authority, the RDW, granted the original EU type approval for FSD (Supervised) under UN Regulation No. 171 back in April. Under EU mutual recognition rules, other member states can adopt that same approval at home without asking Tesla to repeat full type-testing, though each country still runs its own review and files its own notification before signing off.
Tesla says customers across these six countries have logged tens of millions of kilometers on FSD (Supervised) so far. The company claims the system gets into far fewer crashes than manual driving over that distance.
The vote that could change everything
The approval Tesla really wants is a bloc-wide one. The EU’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles, known as the TCMV, is set to take up FSD (Supervised) again on October 6, 2026. A yes vote there would need a qualified majority, at least 15 member states representing 65 percent of the EU’s population, and it could extend approval to all 27 countries at once.
That outcome is anything but settled. Germany, France, Italy and Spain, some of the bloc’s biggest markets, have not signed off yet, and their populations alone account for a large slice of the threshold Tesla needs to clear. France has been careful about this from the start, and its transport minister said in July that the system would not be authorized in its current form. Still, France has since opened road testing with two FSD-equipped vehicles, after Musk met with Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot in early September. Italy has filed paperwork asking regulators to recognize the Dutch approval, though no decision has come yet.
Safety groups have pushed back on the pace, too. The European Transport Safety Council wrote to EU transport ministers back in June, asking them to hold off on recognizing FSD (Supervised) until there is more independently verified, real-world safety data on the table.
Slovenia’s approval could add pressure on its neighbors. Analysts note that Italy, which borders Slovenia, may find it harder to keep waiting now that a neighboring country has signed off. Today, Tesla’s presence across Europe remains a patchwork of country-by-country decisions, and the October TCMV meeting stands as the next real date to watch for a continent-wide answer.
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