As usual EU regulations are written in broad strokes, and detailed implementation is up to National Governments/regulators, and up to democratically elected MEPs to accept or reject.
The UK always made such regulations far more demanding than necessary, however the EU Copyright Outline Regs do contain some ‘fair copy’ safety nets that National Regulators are suppose to apply in their regulations. For example it should be quite acceptable to give a link to El Reg, include a fair quote of a sentence or so and write an over-view expanding this quote to perhaps include additional info not contained in the El Reg article. The new regs are really aimed at keeping newspapers/web blogs in business and stop Google et al ripping the heart out of journalism by wholesale scraping.
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