European official says GDPR compliance guidance still years away

European regulators have been criticized over the potential competitive impact of their new data protection law -- which is backed by hefty fines -- but for one key official, that's the least of their worries, as member-state representatives struggle to agree on a timeline for arriving at enforcement decisions and core implementation guidance is still years away.

“There is confusion about the consistency mechanism and the cooperation between the institutions across Europe, that's the failure of the [General Data Protection...