Clarified in the latest Part FCL Amendment:
EASA Instrument Rating Cross-Crediting
A recent question has highlighted that Appendix 8 to Part-FCL has now been amended to change the cross-crediting available to current airline pilots. Cross-crediting is applicable to RENEWAL as well as REVALIDATION of the EASA Instrument Rating. So, an airline pilot who last held a IR-SP-ME when he gained his CPL some years ago can now get that IR-SP-ME renewed on the back of his type rating revalidation by just flying Sections 1 and 6 or, if he only wants an SE IR, he only needs to have flown 3 approaches with an FI (or solo if he has an IR(R)) and get the paperwork signed by a CRE/IRE.