Didn't the EU ban non-compete clauses entirely recently anyway? Or did the law not go through yet.

The EU doesn't pass laws, they pass some sort of recommendations that individual countries must implement as laws in a certain for another.

Well if you want to be technically correct, EU regulations are binding and must be implemented to the letter by all member countries without excuse or deviation. EU directives are the ones that have some leeway with local laws. Both are legislation though so might as well call them laws.

afaik (and based on a few minutes of googling) there is no such EU wide regulation or directive.

Yeah I'm also having trouble finding anything concrete, not sure where I initially heard about it. Could've just been some rumor.