OK, just found this...
Pilot licence switchover
Some interesting snippets taken from the 35 page document on the website:
'JAR Licenses issued before 8th April 2012, that are fully compliant with JAR-FCL, will automatically become EASA licenses on the 8th April 2012. The legislation willl require the physical replacement of JAR lecenses with their EASA equivalent before 8th April 2017'.
Reading more about this point it states that you have to replace your JAR license on or before the calender expiry date of your license. i.e the date stated above of the 8th April 2017 is assuming those licenses that have been issued on the 7th April 2012, the day before the new licensing comes into effect.
Reading through the document it seems that this change to EASA is actually going to affect every aspect of flying, including theoretical exams which will change to a new EASA standard, medicals, etc etc. I would recommend that you do all have a read through as there will be a fair few changes moving forward, for example there will no longer be a UK IMC rating.
There's also an interesting part at the end where they talk about how the new licensing will significantly increase the work load on the CAA during the period that the new EASA licenses are being issued, and that as a result of this we can expect the responsiveness of the CAA to our enquiries to signifciantly reduce.
