Dave,
thanks for your reply. Sorry, I should have mentioned I'd been to the EASA website amongst a few other usual suspects (CAA, French DGAC, Spanish DGAC, official journals, etc.) and I am aware of the text you quoted, as well as the NPA from 2004, and some of the various bits of existing and currently proposed legislation, in fact, that's why I wrote "effectively relieve" national authorities of licencing duties. I have also consulted with people with intimate knowledge of the working of the EU and its institutions.
I note that the Basic Regulation [the law that says what EASA does--1592/2002, 15th of July, and its subsequent amendments] does not in its current form cover flight crew licencing, which is why I am mystified by the variety of comments I read here.
So to phrase my question in a different way:
a. Where is it stipulated that a transfer of regulatory duties covering flight crew licencing, from national authorities to EASA, will effectively take place on a specified date in the near future?
To this I would like to add:
b. Where can I find the text of these new regulations under which flight crew licences will be issued from the aforementioned specified future date?
TIA.
/LH2