Yes EASA regulation, as any European Regulation, supersedes French one. That's not the question I raised. I wondered what SERA will say about IFR at low level.
SERA.5025 IFR — Rules Applicable to IFR flights outside controlled airspace
(a) Cruising levels
An IFR flight operating in level cruising flight outside of controlled airspace shall be flown at a cruising level appropriate to its track as specified in the table of cruising levels in Appendix 3, except when otherwise specified by the competent authority for flight at or below 900 m (3 000 ft) above mean sea level.
So France is allowed to keep forbidding IFR below 3000ft AMSL
I could see nothing in SERA that would prevent France from forbidding to descent below 3000 AMSL in IMC if no apprach procedure is available.
Last edited by 172510; 2nd Jul 2014 at 07:27.