DFC You are correct I can register as an FTO however I will now have to pay an annual fee to be inspected and to register so these new and in my opinion unnecessary costs must be passed along.
I now also have an increased admin burden as well (above and beyond the normal maintenance of flight training records). This makes it harder to provide a straight forward, personal service at reasonable cost.
I did not need to do this previously and there have been no problems or issues so why should I pay some eurocrat money to come along and inspect my training records to see if I ticked the correct boxes ?