3 point, unfortunately some EU Member States seem to need rules for everything and cannot accept the concept of reasoned determination by professionals..... Hence they've adopted any AMC/GM as 'Rules vich must be obeyed vizout kvestion....'.
Plus certain unscrupulous training organisations have sniffed money in the air and have used the AMC/GM as the excuse for demanding excessive training requirements. For example, one UK TRTO tried to tell a 737 captain with over 8000 hours that because his JAR TR had lapsed by more than 3 years, he would have to do entire B737 TR course again! Even though he had a non-EASA TR on the jet which lapsed about a year ago.... Fortunately we secured confirmation from the CAA that the TRTO was talking through its backside - assessment/training/prof. check was all that was needed.