.....which is not normally a quick procedure.....
Nothing which is crapped out from that €urocratic Tower of €uro-babble in Köln is
ever a 'quick procedure'! Which is why the whole nonsense of EASA needs to be put on hold until they've sorted it all out - they won't achieve an Opinion for FCL.008 by 2012 and I very much doubt if they will achieve an Opinion for FCL.002 by 2014.
If I was Brian and knew that the rulemaking wasn't going to be completed by 2012, I'd throw the whole thing back at the Commission and tell them not to come back until they'd achieved a scomplete set of regulatory proposals....which probably wouldn't be until 2015 at the earliest.