It’s not about UK: EU did announced this 2 months ago, but it was up to each single country to change the local regulation.
Yes, I realise that. However, I'm mostly coming from a UK perspective since I live here and this is the second "push back" the UK has had on this (from June to November, now to 2021), although AFAICT it's a similar situation right across the EU, especially for countries that have similar changes to their official certifications like the PfCO.
On the UK front, the problem is also compounded by absolutely ZERO publication of these changes by the CAA, despite them having collected the contact details of pilots and email addresses that registered with their scheme last year. I guess we're expected to regularly check the EASA/CAA websites just in case a document gets up-revved and work out what has changed if so - I doubt many of here are doing that, so what hope is there for less dedicated pilots who don't even both with drone forums, etc.? What next? Taking a page from Douglas Adams and "publishing" it the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying
"beware of the leopard"?
The key question still stands though, regardless of which country we are talking about. This was supposed to be on the statute books of all EU countries *last year* or early this (e.g. before Covid-19), with a view to going live on June 1st. The UK managed that, and we're not even fully in the EU anymore, as well as several other EU countries I'm aware of. It's not like there's going to much change on the enforcement front, a few distances have changed, but the basics are the same: if you breach the regs, or even cause some kind of incident, and get caught it's just a different book that gets thrown at you. So what, exactly, is the reason for the hold up?