The whole point is that certain Eu countries licenses (France etc) were considered not as good as other countries (UK etc), so after the conversion to a 'level playing field' for EASA licenses, some countries engineers got a full B1/B2 on the basis of what they currently held, and the fact that certain countries (UK) had a world recognised exam path to get those licenses meant that the new JAR66 is only worth having if issued in certain countries. I do not mean to put down engineers from any particular country but you can see that the path to achieve the old licences were a bit different across Europe so how they can issue a common licence based on them is beyond belief....it is now showing up in job adverts as you have seen....