Originally Posted by
ZBMAN
TRE's in my company are instructed not to sign off french licences (nor italian ones for that matter). There is definitely something fishy going on here. Maybe France has decided to comply with FCL requirements after all, but somehow I doubt it...
This is perfectly correct, and written in the FCL, however, you do an LPC/OPC with a UK TRE, then you go to any license office in france and your licence is renewed. The TRE CANNOT sign the licence, but he can fill out the paperwork and it is valid.