Still the penny has not dropped for many people. EASA has changed the rules of the game. Sure you can continue as before and be ripped off by unscrupulous maintenance organisations. & the CAA will goldplate EASA rules to ensure they collect fees for work which EASA never intended.
But part M contains a comprehensive list of tasks that an owner can do on his aircraft. That same owner can take his aircraft to a specialist maintenance organisation and TELL THEM to do the jobs for which he is not competent.
He is then free to take his aircraft to any part m sub part G&I org and request an ARC. If they start to hum & hah he can tell them to get lost and find another usually independent engineer to do the job. Also he could go to any qualified engineer in any EU member state where the costs are much less. PLEASE stop treating engineers and maintenance orgs like gods and start to see that they are there to do what YOU want, not what they think they can get away with. I know cos I am an engineer!
A & C Don't know if you read French but since part M is based on the current French system that would be a good way to understand what is proposed. Go to
www.gsac.fr Click on telechargements, then on documents, scroll down to MGM Manual for airworthiness maintenance organisations. This manual gives everything you need to know as to how part M should work in practice. Like I say its a whole new ball game for us in UK...better get used to it, and not try to hang on to the old ways that sometimes amounted to extortion.