EVwire brief: The Czech Ministry of Transport has spelled out why Tesla owners in the country still cannot access FSD Supervised, even though Dutch regulator RDW has already given the system a provisional approval. Instead of recognizing the Dutch decision on its own, the Czech Ministry says it is holding out for a coordinated position at the EU level.
In making its case, the Ministry argued that the affected Tesla fleet is small, currently fewer than 300 cars. A Community Note on the Ministry’s X post promptly corrected that figure, citing EU data that puts Tesla's registered fleet in Czechia at 8,642 cars by the end of 2024. All of these vehicles are HW4, which means they can access FSD Supervised’s latest updates.
The Czech Republic is not blocking the technology. However, it is proceeding in such a way as not to assume an unassessed safety and legal risk, not to spend public funds on a non-harmonized solution and not to preempt decisions at the European Union level.
Here's the Ministry of Transport's comments on X, Community Note and all:
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The Czech Ministry pointed to Germany, France, Sweden, and Italy as other European countries having reservations about FSD Supervised. Germany reportedly wants a detailed technical assessment before it moves, France reportedly calls the step premature, and Italy would reportedly wait for an EU-level decision.
Sweden, according to the Ministry, “considers some of the system's functions incompatible with the basic principles of safety (Vision Zero) and warns that their adoption would set a dangerous precedent for the entire EU.”
Including Belgium, FSD Supervised has now been approved in five European countries
Other members have taken the opposite route. Lithuania and Estonia each recognized the Dutch approval without running tests of their own, and Denmark became the fourth EU country to switch the system on for local owners on June 9. Annick De Ridder, Flanders' Minister of Mobility, also stated on X that Belgium has approved FSD Supervised.
For now, the Czech Ministry of Transport says the expert assessment is still running, with the next round of EU Technical Committee for Motor Vehicles talks set for June 30, 2026. Until the bloc settles on a common line, Prague says it would rather not get ahead of Brussels.
Tesla Czechia's sales team pushes back
The Ministry's reasoning is already drawing pushback from inside Tesla's Czech operation. Adrian Smrček, a senior sales advisor on Tesla Czechia's sales team, posted a point-by-point response on X, arguing that the Ministry could approve FSD Supervised without further evaluation, just as Estonia, Lithuania, and Denmark did based on the RDW's 18 months of testing in the Netherlands.
Similar to the Community Note, Smrček disputed the Ministry's fleet figure. In 2025 alone, 1,943 new Teslas were registered in the Czech Republic, the advisor noted, every one of them able to activate FSD Supervised with a software update. He added that the system was developed and trained on data from across Europe, not solely for driving conditions in the Netherlands.
Here's Smrček's full response on X:
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