Our own "mighty" union the ALAE are doing their best to highlight the issue with letters detailing their worries to EASA in cologne. The options are either the CAA lower their requirements in line with the rest of europe or we just put up and shut up.
ultimately its is all down to safety and an engineer will sign to say the aircraft is safe to fly then get off the aircraft leaving you to fly the aircraft believing he knows what he is talking about.