The ludicrous thing is that anyone should be so boneheaded as to believe that the demonstration of CPL knowledge will make one iota of difference in that last 10 hours of flight training.
It seems that certain NAAs didn't like the idea of being non-compliant with ICAO when the original EASA proposal
not to require 'CPL knowledge' was put forward. But since the LAPL is a sub-ICAO licence, the proposal
could apply to LAPL training - particularly when the 'LAFI' was rejected.
I pointed out that a 'modular' PPL (as I suggested above) would enable a PPL/FI without CPL knowledge to be paid for the majority of the dual training. One of the NAA representatives harrumphed and said "We would not encourage people to find ways around The Rules" - to which I countered that, in the UK, we consider it a national pastime to find creative solutions to blinkered bureaucracy!