No restrictions at my place, and I tend to aggree with the Lufty practice which says if you are hand flying use manual thrust. Airbus recommend not disconecting below 1000ft which given the way the system works is quite sensible so if are taking the autopilot out late you have to stick with a/thr.
Despite what other posters have said and the fact the fbw is supposed to take out the pitch couple I find that in practice it does not take it all out and you end up fighting the pitch changes. As others have said it's a tool that works quite well but it's no better than any other system and has it's failings like any other. Apart from anything else it's a very easy aircraft to fly in manual thrust, the levers have very little friction (no autothrottle clutch) even with g/s mini varying the speed it's easy to keep on top of it.