I'm not quite clear whether he has a JAR PPL(A), PPL(M) or both.
Unless I missed a lot of things, the only JAR PPL definitions are PPL(A) and PPL(H).
As I guess, they are now working on a European LSA equivalent (ELSA was it, right?), which would more or less correspond to your PPL(M). Once that is in place, the national authorities are left to controlling their equivalents of US'an ultralights (FAA part 103). But Europeans are strong on traditions, in this case that means nothing much will change in the next few years. Administrations were never fast, and the bigger the slower, and Brussels is very big.
Too big, I'd say, if't were not for the money I can occasionally gain there.