I agree with Bookworm. The FAA IR is every bit as good as a JAA IR But if you offered the IMCR as a sub FAA IR to the Americans no body would bother with it.
Why because the FAA IR is designed to achieve a standard which is sensible, cost effective and does not require months of study.
This is what I hope EASA are doing and will continue to do up until the real date of 2016 not 2014.
By september november they should have completed their study of the FAA system and JAA system to complete their ideas on PPL FCL before moving onto a similar study on commercial licences but the driving force is to simplify not complicate.
Pace