What is the time span until it need to be fully enforced? Regulations are rarely if ever instantaneous. For the industry I work in (domain name, hosting, email, and similar services), you start to hear about it when they are being drafted, when they are about to be voted on, when they have been voted on, when it get ratified, when they get a date for when they are going to start being enforced, and once they are being enforced there is a generally a grace period of getting into compliance.
For a lot of stuff this is process that takes 10+ years. A fairly large step is the time between a EU regulation being created and when the same law is ratified by each country, and the span between those two events where the government seeks input from the industry on how to implement the regulation.
For a lot of stuff this is process that takes 10+ years. A fairly large step is the time between a EU regulation being created and when the same law is ratified by each country, and the span between those two events where the government seeks input from the industry on how to implement the regulation.