Curiosity or dumb question
The original question did get me thinking about how EASA are promulgating this requirement apart from word of mouth to the Pilots who will be affected. I agree it is written in the EASA regulations and has been for a couple of years but if you are not a regular Pprune reader has there been anything highlighting this in the aviation press that I may have missed? FAA licence holders would not be on any circulation list available to EASA. NBAA did bring out a statement but not everybody is a member.
I made our crew aware of this a long time ago but otherwise they would only have learnt of this by chance meetings.
Cheers
Mike Echo