englishal To keep a JAR MEP, one does not actually have to do the "10 hours per year" that you mention, or even 10 sectors a year.
You can fly nil hour & nil sectors, then just ask the examininer to test you over a flight sector, as part of the annual MEP test. As far as I recall "a flight sector" can just be, leaving the circuit, 15 mins in the cruise & then back to the circuit. So you would normally do a "flight sector" during an MEP, in any case.
I agree with you that the JAR is every year, instead of the FAA biannually, but if you actually want to fly an MEP single-pilot, then that seems a sensible safety requirement to me.
