I find the process interesting but I am not involved in it so you will have to blame someone else. I only commented because your interpretation of the meeting did not entirely agree my understanding of it.
I would point out I was not alone in my interpretation of the meeting, the report of the debate in this month's IAOPA-Europe newsletter states:
"But Brian Simpson said the European Parliament had passed the Basic Regulation with the European-licensing element included and could not now say it didn’t want it."