Here's a naïve question - why couldn't the institution that's supposed to do the planning/regulation be the one that's obligated to provide the necessary resources for the parties being regulated, if they lack them themselves?

> The non-profit root server operators might have to leave the EU and put up active measures so that no Europeans can use their root servers. They can’t afford to do all the paperwork for NIS 2.

For example, if a university cannot afford to file the necessary paperwork, why couldn't the EU be the ones that are obligated to send someone over to handle the legwork and help them out?

I know that something like that would never work for reasons that the lovely people here would hopefully point out (since i don't really deal with the legal stuff that often), but here's another example - i live in Latvia, and the government actually helps me to fill out and pay my taxes somewhat. Granted, it only handles the most common cases and calculations in the form of a self-service web app, but if a lot of paperwork is just forms anyways, why not apply it to other domains?

In contrast, telling a university that they'll need to invest significant time and resources into something that they simply cannot do on their own, knowing the implications of this, doesn't appear fair.