Wise up will you!
The regulations that are being referred to in the piece are those which have been extant for almost 15 years. The quotation from Dominique Orbeque was very amusing:
"Regulatory constraints are much less important to our European neighbours".
The rules in question had been transposed to EASA OPS from Appendix 1 to JAR-OPS 3.005(d) - HEMS; and Subpart I - Performance Class 3.
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