The EASA Committee (comitology process) voted unanimously today to adopt the rules for the new IR and also the EIR and - for glider pilots - the SCFR. I understand the only amendment to the text proposed by the Commission for this meeting was the addition of English language proficiency for the IR and EIR.
The UK IMCR gets a life extension until April 2019.
The texts still have to go through the European Parliament scrutiny process, but that should be OK and on a timescale that the new ratings become law by end of first quarter 2014 or soon after.
A day for celebration after a long haul.
More on a thread on the 'dark side'.