Tesla Inc has received official permission to roll out its Full Self-Driving supervised driver assistance software in Belgium, the transport minister for the Flanders region announced on Wednesday.
Annick De Ridder posted an image of a signed official document on X and confirmed that she had signed the authorization. The minister said the decision comes after Tesla completed a series of successful tests in Belgium.
Under Belgian regulatory arrangements, an approval granted in any one of the nation’s three regions applies uniformly across all Belgian territories. That procedural rule means the authorization signed in Flanders enables deployment throughout the country without separate regional clearances.
This development makes Belgium the third member state within the European Union to authorize Tesla’s FSD supervised driver assistance technology, following prior approvals in the Netherlands and in Lithuania.
The authorization specifically covers Tesla’s supervised driver assistance functionality - a system designed to assist drivers rather than replace them. The minister’s public post included a photographed copy of the signed document, which served as confirmation of the regional government’s decision.
The announcement highlights a continuing pattern of isolated national approvals within the EU for this particular technology. Belgium’s application of a single-approval rule across its regions provides a clear administrative path for companies obtaining regional sign-off, while the sequence of approvals across member states demonstrates a piecemeal approach to permitting the technology in Europe.
At this stage the authorization is limited to the capabilities described by the technology as supervised driver assistance. The minister’s statement and the accompanying image of the signed approval are the primary public confirmations of the decision and the testing that preceded it.