The medical requirements for an ATCO licence have always been over the top. Things will not change under 'Europeanisation'. There seems to be some illogical link with professional pilot medicals for which there is no substantive facts.
If you are of average fitness and have eyesight that can be corrected to 'normal' by whatever means then that should be good enough.
The age old dramatics of controllers dying in harness through stress and ill health is a legend brought about by a need to spice up the profession.
But we are stuck with the rules as written and a few sensible AME's will give a wider allowance than perhaps they should if sticking to those rules.
Perhaps Heathrow Director would like to quote the last time an aircraft came to grief due to controller incapacitiation.
