The CAA have this on there website. At
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/620/srg_l&...s_Sept2010.pdf
5. Non-EU licences - Validations and conversions
5.1 As proposed the Part-FCL regulation will make provision for the temporary validation of licences issued outside of the territory that is subject to EASA regulations - (i.e. outside of the EU Member States and those countries that have signed agreements to be bound by the EASA regulations and implementing rules). An example would be the holder of a licence issued by the FAA wanting to fly an aircraft registered in the UK. There are also proposed
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provisions for the conversion of such licences - i.e. their replacement with EASA licences. These proposed provisions are similar to those that have been applied under JAR-FCL. However, in the case of validations the regulation as currently proposed introduces a significant change in that a licence holder may only obtain a validation once, and it will be time limited.
5.2 The proposed validation requirements are set out in Annex III to the regulation for Part-FCL. The general requirements in that Annex that would apply to all validations according to this proposal are:
• the licence to be validated must be compliant with ICAO Annex 1;
• application may only be made to the NAA of the country where the pilot is resident, or where the operator they will fly for has its principal place of business;
• the period of validation will not exceed one year;
• no repeat validations are allowed;
• a validation can be extended once only by the competent authority (NAA) that issued it, to allow time for the pilot to obtain an EASA licence. The extension will be given if the pilot concerned has commenced training for an EASA licence. The period of the extension will not be excessive, taking into account the typical time taken by applicants to obtain the EASA licence that the pilot is training for.
At present, Article 62 of the Air Navigation Order 2009 grants a permanent general validation to all non-UK licence holders to allow them to fly UK-registered aircraft, provided that the flight is for private purposes. The European legislation will overturn this (and the ANO will be amended to avoid causing confusion). If adopted as currently proposed, Part-FCL will require the holder of a licence issued by a non-EASA country to have an individual validation issued by the appropriate EASA member NAA. However, EASA has advised that such validations should give the same privileges as an EASA licence, so that the licence holder should be entitled to fly an aircraft registered anywhere