Very slightly off thread but:
I have a nice shiny EASA ATPL which I need to be 'verified' in support of a new job outside EASAland. EASA form duly downloaded and GUIDANCE NOTE 3 states that a Certified Copy of a UK licence which shows most recent Certificate of Revalidation must accompany the application - and the cheque for 44 quid of course. The Certifier has to be the Head of Training of a EASA ATO or Head of Standards of an Organisation with its own EASA AOC. Not easy to obtain if you dont live in EASAland - which I dont. After weeks of emails and phone calls the CAA finally told me 'Oh I'm sorry. GUIDANCE NOTE 3 appears to have been entered in error to that form and its actually not a requirement at all!"
Moral of the story - check all those new EASA forms very very carefully and query anything that seems even slightly odd.