I am just leaving for a meeting of the MDM.032 core group in Cologne, and there will be further discussion on the content of the LAPL (which was formulated in a sub group with separate people).
There is still two further chances to influence the process - (1) responding to the CRD - Comment Response Document - and (2) when the NPA is published, probably March 08
I suggest everyone looks at the CRD explanatory note which is in the third box down at:
http://www.easa.europa.eu/home/r_crd.html You will see from this that the question of an IMCR / IFR rating was not the prmiary concern of respondents, but then the responses came from all over Europe including many at the very light end of GA (microlights).
The other related documents are there too.
It took an age for all the 8054 comments in late 2006 to be assimilated by EASA - a major task - hence the delay in publication.