There were a lot of comments from industry at the time of the original NPA for Part-FCL, which did not allow time gained on other than an EASA aircraft to count towards the issue of a licence or the issue or revalidation of a class rating. This resulted in a change to allow prior experience as PIC to be counted towards the experience requirements for issue of the LAPL(A). In the explanatory note that accompanied this change it was stated:
Another issue that deserved a lot of comments was the issue of crediting, specifically the crediting of previous experience acquired in aircraft included in Annex II to the Basic Regulation, and therefore outside of the EASA system. Since these aircraft were excluded from the scope of EU competence and remain therefore fully within the competence of Member States, it is not possible to establish in EU law a system where credit would be given for something that is not known or controlled on the EU level. Therefore, a system that would credit a certain number of hours based on experience acquired flying those aircraft could not be included in Part-FCL.
This is the basic premise, based on Article 4 of the Basic Regulation, that the EASA implementing rules relate only to EASA aircraft and so, unless it is specifically stated otherwise, when the term 'aeroplane' (as opposed to 'Annex II aeroplane', for example) is used it means an EASA aeroplane.