Unfortunately it is not just aviation that suffers from this problem of non-compliance. There seems to be a general attitude in many European countries that having a regulation is an end in itself - compliance with the regulation is seen as optional unless or until the authorities deem it to be to their advantage. The problem is, I think, a cultural one, which makes it very difficult to overome unless very big sticks are waved around by a supra-national authority with the cojones to do so
(Supra-national authority = cojones? Contradiction in terms!)