"Member States shall replace these licences with licences complying with the format laid down in Part-ARA by 8 April 2017 at the latest.". ...if you want to carry on flying.
It doesn't say you can't have your JAR licence reissued as an EASA licence after that date. Only that JAR licence can't be used after that date. The whole thing is wide open to interpretation. This regulation says that you already HAVE an EASA licence. EASA licences so not have an expiry date, and the idea of replacing them by 8th April 2017 was clearly to avoid having "expiring" licences in circulation (that's the date the last one would expire)
Last edited by rudestuff; 23rd Feb 2021 at 08:32.