It was a big negative step when we were forced to align our Ops Manuals with JAR-OPS 3 paragraph by paragraph. In my opinion this was done to make it easy for the Authority to check that our manuals were compliant with Jar-Ops 3 - it was not done to make the manuals easy to interpret by flight crew. A lot of good stuff was lost from the manuals as a consequence and its less easy to read as a result.
I wonder if the usability of the procedures and the role of the regulator is something the AAIB will examine?