Belgium approved Tesla‘s FSD Supervised on June 10, 2026, one day after Denmark cleared the same software. That makes Belgium the fifth European country and Denmark the fourth to authorize the driver assistance system.
When EVXL covered the Dutch approval on April 10, the open question was whether other member states would recognize it quickly or wait for Brussels. Five countries in two months answers that question. The national route is sprinting while the EU-wide route idles, and that asymmetry now defines Tesla’s European rollout.
Both approvals are provisional, resting on a Dutch certification the EU Commission can still strike down. And hardware limits shut out many existing owners at launch.
Belgium Signed Off One Day After Denmark
Annick De Ridder, the Flemish Minister of Mobility, signed Belgium’s approval of FSD Supervised on June 10, 2026, announcing the decision on X and confirming that her homologation department will now notify the Dutch vehicle authority RDW to complete the final administrative step.
“I just signed the approval,” De Ridder wrote alongside a photo of the document, according to Reuters. Under Belgian law, an authorization granted in one region is valid nationwide, so the Flemish signature covers Wallonia and Brussels too.
The groundwork was already in place. Flanders had cleared Tesla to run roughly 5,000 kilometers of FSD testing on public roads in May, and De Ridder had pushed for a rapid homologation pathway for months. Even so, the signature arrived sooner than most regulatory trackers expected.
Denmark Approves The System Its Regulators Once Questioned
Færdselsstyrelsen, the Danish Road Traffic Authority, granted FSD Supervised a provisional approval on June 9, 2026, accepting the type approval the Dutch RDW issued on April 10 after running its own review of Tesla’s technical documentation rather than rubber-stamping the Dutch decision.
The authority concluded the system “will contribute positively to road safety” by assisting the driver, according to its official statement. The same statement stresses that the software does not make the car self-driving and that the driver remains fully responsible at all times.
The reversal is what makes Denmark interesting. Email correspondence obtained by Reuters showed Denmark alongside Sweden, Finland, and Norway raising objections to FSD at the European level, citing the system’s handling of posted speed limits and its behavior on icy roads, as well as a product name that promises more than the software delivers. Two months later, the same country reviewed the Dutch documentation and signed off anyway.
The Danish rollout comes with a hard limit: the European build of FSD v14 runs only on vehicles with Hardware 4, according to Danish motoring organization FDM. Owners of older Hardware 3 cars, which make up much of the Danish Tesla fleet, are excluded at launch.
Brussels Can Still Cancel Every National Approval
Every national clearance granted so far rests on the Dutch provisional approval, and Færdselsstyrelsen states plainly that a rejection by the EU Commission would invalidate that Dutch approval after six months, taking the Danish clearance and every other national recognition down with it.
The bloc-wide process has barely moved since the RDW notified the European Commission on April 13. The Dutch authority presented its case to the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles on May 5, and the committee’s June 30 agenda includes further discussion but no scheduled vote. Approval requires a qualified majority: at least 15 of 27 member states representing 65 percent of the EU population.
Europe now runs a two-track system. Countries willing to recognize the Dutch certification can switch FSD Supervised on today. The permanent, continent-wide answer still depends on a Brussels vote with no date attached, conducted under EU confidentiality rules.
EVXL’s Take
The sequence tells the story. Netherlands on April 10. Lithuania on May 20. Estonia on May 29. Denmark on June 9. Belgium on June 10. The gap between approvals has shrunk from 40 days to a single day. When I published EVXL’s April 10 coverage of the Netherlands approval, I argued the real test would be whether other regulators followed. They’re racing each other to the signature.
Denmark’s flip matters more than Belgium’s signature. Belgium wanted this; De Ridder campaigned for it openly. Denmark was a documented skeptic that read the file and changed its mind. That’s a stronger endorsement of the technical case than any minister’s X post, and it weakens the Nordic bloc that could complicate the qualified-majority math in Brussels.
I’d still keep the champagne corked. As we wrote in February when the UNECE adopted its outcome-based framework, regulatory paths that open quickly can close quickly. Every one of these approvals carries a six-month self-destruct clause triggered by a single negative Commission decision, and the politics of the “Full Self-Driving” name haven’t gone anywhere.
At least eight EU member states will have granted national recognition of FSD Supervised by December 31, 2026. Belgium and Greece were already fast-tracking before this week, per the European Transport Safety Council, and Denmark’s reversal just handed every hesitant regulator political cover. If the bloc-wide vote slips into the autumn or later, as industry trackers now project, the national-recognition map will have made it close to a formality.
Sources: Færdselsstyrelsen, Reuters, FDM.
EVXL uses automated tools to support research and source retrieval. All reporting and editorial perspectives are by Haye Kesteloo.
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