According to
this UK CAA announcement, Amendment 5 of JAR-FCL 3 will come into effect on 1 December 2006.
Sounds like the issuing of deviations will end then as well. So if you're between -6 and -8 it's probably already too late, as I doubt you'd get an appointment before the end of the month
And there I was hoping that "sometime soon" was in the context of international standardisation...