There´s another thread on Rumours & News about this.
Raw Data - agree - when I did my IR in South Africa, we not only did VOR approaches & holds but NDB ones as well which are tougher.
It seems to be a money making scam by the flight schools.
France has decided to behave like that, and the UK is allowing foreign training and home examinations, and I hear now in Denmark you don´t have to redo the IR...how long is it before someone takes the whole JAA mess to the European court and has it binned?
How is it an improvement on the older licences anyway? Airlines have been flying for decades on the old system.
Is this socialism at work?