> That's the weird thing with some European "laws", they give countries 1 or 2 years to implement it and some countries abuse that to go and implement it on the very last day.

If you give them to the last day and they do it on the last day, they have done what you asked, it's not abuse. Want it done sooner? Require it done sooner.

I can confirm this is supposed to be the same in Spain. Implementation varies across industries, of course.

EU regulations take effect directly and are roughly equivalent to national law (see GDPR).

In contrast, EU directives stipulate the desired outcome and let countries draft their own national law to achieve the directive's desired outcome.