As I understand it they were giving a 90 day exemption.
As no airline pilot is based in europe for anything close to that it was a neat side step. Clobbers the N Reg based operators which was always promised and part of the reason the DofT dropped the n reg deporting exercise.
I did point this out on a number of occassions but as usual lost in a hundred pages of telling me why I was wrong.
I do agree that the worst thing that is going to happen to GA is EASA.
But I am sure you can get gte Fuji to organise a petition and speak to some of his new MEP friends to sort it all out.....