Shell Management said, "....the C++ FDR does not meet the JAR-OPS 3 requirements - they only realised there was a requirement after the first aircraft went to the UK."
Isn't that a self-serving piece of drivel, if you truly are a part os "Shell management"? You speak as if the aircraft made itself and flew to Europe, snuck into service and was then discovered to be sub-standard!
Was that aircraft bought, paid for, specified, built, delivered and introduced to service by operating dolts who opened the box in Europe, to discover it was wrongly built? Or did everyone in the chain allow a grand fathered design into service? Please do not tell me that a 332L has a compliant system and a new C++ does not!