Originally Posted by
BizJetJock
It's only required for flights outside the EASA area to prove to any ramp inspectors that your EASA licence from country X is valid on an aircraft registered in country Y. It is not required within the EASA area.
Ah, perfect! Thanks for providing the details, obviously I remembered it only partially correct.
Originally Posted by
Mustapha Cuppa
To be clear, this is to fulfil an ICAO requirement and is not a limitation imposed by the Basic Regulation.
ICAO only "recognises" individual member states, not groupings of member states. And whilst your licence is issued in accordance with Part-FCL, it is, nevertheless, issued by the authorities of individual member states, not EASA.
With this context it makes absolute sense (although it still doesn't make sense, but that's a different discussion).
Years ago, I rented a European registered C182 in Africa, no paper required back then, never had any issues.