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The OP reacts to news of businesses stopping serving EU, and those businesses are from outside of the Union. So PECR is not so relevant.

>dispite this widespread non-compliance and fierce fines available to the regulators the sky hasn't fallen

Don't you really see how absolutely wrong is this? When law is composed in a way which makes it in practice only selectively applicable, it leads to erosion of justice, and invites for corruption.