I might have completely mis-read (and I hope), but I was under the impression that the training required for licence renewal was meant to be based on an individual basis but the CAA have just issued guidelines not anything set in stone?
(From the standards document Part 4, 4.and
http://www.easa.europa.eu/agency-mea...20Part-FCL.pdf)
I do work overseas now so there might be newer documents out that I don't know about as I am out of the loop)