There speaks a lawyer
What the legislation does is to require EU residents who operate aircraft in the EU to have a licence issued/validated in accordance with EU requirements.
And this is the bit that is screwing GA, the training industry and every pilot in the UK with increased costs and beauracracy contrary to the EU Objective:
(c) to promote cost-efficiency in the regulatory and certification
processes and to avoid duplication at national and
European level;
All licences are being duplicated at a significant cost to the holder. There is no level playing field at PPL level because each State still issues its own interpretation designed to preserve their National methodology and theoretical exams, which vary in content, complexity and number of questions. The only level point is the label on the licence, a paper sticker would have have acheived the same outcome! Yet again this shows no compliance with another EU objective:
(f) to provide a level playing field for all actors in the internal
aviation market.
In fact there is no requirement for the recreational side of aviation to be included at all, all States comply with ICAO recommendations, so why the need for such a tranche of beauracracy that contributes nothing of a positive nature to the status quo?
The EU requirements are deeply flawed, with no perceived safety benefit, whilst having a markedly detrimental effect on cost-efficiency. The AMC contains vast amounts of material this is unqualified, unquantified and therefore totally meaningless for setting a level standard. The syllabus material is largely impossible to adhere to because of its lack of any measurable standards. At its daftest point, where some standards are defined, the PPL issue flight test standard is not the same as the class rating revalidation standard! Only a totally misinformed and unqualified person could have produced such inconsistent rubbish!