This is all quite confusing in light of the recent AOPA announcement that the French had been asked (by EASA) to take a fresh look at GA regulation, from the ground up.
http://www.pprune.org/private-flying...anges-air.html
Why would they (EASA) ask the French to take a clean-sheet approach to this when, to all intents in purposes, the guillotine is on the way down already?
Is it really likely that, given all the apparent chaos and confusion, that in a year or so time, EASA will turn round and say "hey guys, we got it wrong, forget everything we've told you, we're using a new system [X] which is, (for the sake of argument) identical to the FAA system?
My gut feeling is that Part FCL will be adopted in its entirety in a couple of years or so and from there on, it will be pretty difficult to unwind the whole thing, even if the French, the Germans, the Irish, and every other member, all agrees (as do the board who have commissioned this report) that system X is the way ahead?