all operators in the world will be affected by the AD issued by the FAA. However, one hopes that other operators carried out the AD correctly when it was first issued and they won't have a problem with it.
The present problem is because of inadequacies in complying with the AD in the first place and the present audits by the FAA are checking for compliance
because some FAA whislte blowers advised that some US airlines had not complied correctly.
Thanks, I guess then the EU (and other) operators like SAS, Blue1 in my part of the world happily complied with the ADs...like I said hvaen't been around much to talk to SAS/Blue1 crews, though did meet some chap yesterday who said that its buisness as usual at SAS other than the usual maintence "problems"