It is being discussed within EASA at the moment. Are you a member of AOPA? They have representation on the discussions.
RVR800 - First there is no such thing as a Frozen ATPL it primarily exists in the mind of wannabee airline pilots who think it puts them a notch over others!! Secondly I was not saying that a CPL/IR holder with an FI rating was an better or worse than a PPL FI. What I was saying is that it is bloody arrogant of someone thinking because they have completed the ATPL exams they are somehow no longer an apprentice. Exams do not make a good Instructor or a good pilot, experiance does. The problem with a lot of hour building FI's is that they are only interested in the hours and not the student.
They don't sit there and think about the student they sit and think about when they are going to get a break so that they can leave the crappy spam can behind and fly a chav transporter.
The PPL FI gets into it because they want to put something back and generally are of the experianced nature as Beagle points out. Don't get me wrong there a lot of very good dedicated FI's out there some career others more transient. But the standard varies greatly. But don't ever tell me a young kid with a few hundred hours and an FI is not an apprentice.
And before anyone starts I passed all those exams and with 2000hrs still consider myself to be an apprentice.