Stellair,
Your comments regarding the NPPL are utter rubbish:
"The 'Brevet de base' is no different to an NPPL! They are both woefully insignificant qualifications to be flying a kite nevermind an aircraft with passengers on board."
The Brevet de base and NPPL are totally and utterly different. I've converted from an NPPL to PPL recently. When training for the original PPL my instructor asked me 90% of the way through the training which licence I was going for. The exams are the same, the amount of hours are virtually the same and the a/c i trained in are identical. I flew 300 hrs on my NPPL and every weekend - I know PPLs with less hours who fly so infrequently they have to refrsh with an instructor before a long distance trip - who would you rather send your daughter up with? The only difference training I needed was radio nav.
Just after I qualified with the original NPPL i flew up to scotland for a couple of weeks - a fab trip. During this 3 a/c were lost - all "full" PPL's and cause for 2 of these were CFIT. The logic in your statement is flawed.
I agree with the other posts, EASA is already a dinosaur and is a real threat to our wonderful sport!