Mountain rating
Since someone here mentioned mountain flying, what is going to happen to the French mountain rating (the general, lifetime, non-site-specific one)? The way I understand it, up till now if you completed the training with a non-French JAA license the regional DGAC office would give you a piece of paper to keep with your license that is equivalent to a rating. What now?
Couldn't the IMCR be handled in a similar way, i.e. the UK keeps on training the way they please, then release a piece of paper to keep with the EASA license that gives IMCR privileges in the UK only, without necessarily issuing an "official" rating?