DFC
From your comments it would seem that you take the stance that the UK aircraft maintenance industry is providing poor service and is not keeping up with the new EASA requirements.
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This EASA law is for Harmonisation if in order to harmonise with the standard you need to do lots of extra work then ask yourself why could this be if you were at the required standard?
The fact is that UK GA as a whole is the safest in europe and the number of accidents due to maintenance errors is almost nill.
The evidence is that UK based mantenance companys on the whole do a good job, yes there are one or two places that should not be in business but this is the same in any industry.
The problems with EASA part M are the extra paperwork that is required to do the job and the extra expence of the approvals required to do the work. The amount of maintenance "hands on" work on your aircraft won't change under EASA. What will change is the amount of paperwork that is required and the CAA charges for doing this paperwork.
You seem to think that this harmonisation is the UK stepping into line with Europe. It is not. It is an entirely new system for all Europe but as we know the Europeans are very good at sidestepping regulations that they don't like and most of the European states aviation authourity's are not required to recover costs from the industry.
So wile the CAA is diligently enforcing Part M on the UK and charging the "going rate" for it I fully expect the French to be ignoring the regulations and getting the services of the NAA paid for by the state.
Level european playing field? .......................I think not!