Seems to be a lot of dots & dashes regarding this Morse character.
Under JAA the old CAA morse exam (held in a class) is no longer, a great shame I say !
It does actually fall into the IFR comms syllabus, but is not currently in the JAA ground exam. Unlikely to change I think.
However, like WWW I think it is essential for IMC/IR pilots.
You must POSITIVELY indentify the beacon, not just think that sounds right. Otherwise you are told fly to the "CT", select the wrong frequency and get "CIT" say "I heard the C & T" I must be right. Fly off in totally the wrong direction and fail your IR.
The above incident did ACTUALLY happen.
Morse is not as difficult to learn as people think, it just needs application and regular practice ideally with an old fashioned cassette tape.
To summarise - not required for JAA ground exams, flying YES.