ICAO Annex 1
1.2.2.2 Recommendation.— A pilot licence issued by a
Contracting State should be rendered valid by other
Contracting States for use in private flights.
With that in mind one wonders why EASA are concerned about the PPL; any existing PPL that meets ICAO standards should automatically be acceptable. EASA is not a contracting State and it doesn't actually have a PPL that complies with anything. They have failed to produce a single theoretical exams for any of their proposed PPLs, resulting in each State having its own National variant of a so called EASA licence which is then only accepted by EASA on an EASA aircraft. What utter tripe this bunch of bone heads have produced. It is fit only for the rubbish bin.