Raven. What Liam is alluding to is that if you introduce a way of the company deciding who deserves BPP, we'll end up with a similar situation to that which the S/O's are experiencing now. He's right, and the only way to continue with the BPP issue is to follow the CoS to the letter - as soon as we accept a company translation of this, we'll be in a whole heap of trouble.
Also, let not your blood boil over the F/O on more pay than had he passed his command. He's probably not on bypass pay, just enjoying a pax European base and the command he was attempting was a freighter base in the UK or Hkg.