Malcom
I accept what you say, but the eurocrats change the law based upon recommendations made by governing bodies such as EASA. I doubt that these recommendations or opinions will be objected to do you? So I think you can be pretty sure that the transitional provisions will be implimented.
If our dear old CAA said that there would not be any extensions to 28/09/08 it was probably based on information fed to them by EASA. EASA make the rules not the CAA.
I agree that Bose-x has just had a transitional CofA or ARC, and his next one will almost certainly be transitional as well but after that ?????