Here we go again - another bunch of misunderstandings, half-truths and distortions about training for JAA licences and ratings outside the JAA. The facts are:
According to JAR-FCL 1 (and 2) training outside of a JAA member state is restricted to all or part of the integrated ATP course. The UK CAA is, however, obliged by UK law to approve any organisation that meets the requirements, irrespective of where it is located. It would appear, if NACGS is to be believed, that Spain has also now approved modular training, contrary to the JAA requirements, in Japan. However, since Spain does not supply details of its approved organisations to the JAA, there is no way of confirming this.
Since this modular JAA training is expressly forbidden by the requirements, any licence or rating issued as a result of such training has, by definition, not been issued in accordance with JAR-FCL. A number of authorities, led by the French DGAC, quite rightly refuse to accept licences and ratings so gained as valid under JAR-FCL.
Naples Air Centre and Atlantic Flight Training have got together and, with the co-operation of the UK CAA arranged for an examination centre to be established in Florida.
There is no JAA approved training organisation in Australia.
When EASA takes over responsibility for licensing within the EU, its standards will be adopted as EU law. Assuming that they adopt the existing JARs, this means that all FTO-based training outside the EU, except for all or part of the integrated ATP course, will become illegal and, since EU law overrides national law, the UK CAA (and the Spanish DGAC) will be obliged to withdraw approval from all overseas FTOs it currently approves.