Thanks Prop Swinger - So I can wait until this licence expires and when I renew it will just be a non-expiring EASA licence?
I was having a good old gripe to someone because I was under the impression that I had paid to have it renewed in 2012 for five years (must have been just before it become EASA automatically) and now I had to pay for it to be converted! Looks like this may be good news..