JAA is meant to be about HARMONISATION!!!
Thanks Fouga for clarifying this point.
After much perseverence I got through to the CAA and they told me just what you have said above.
The fee for changing state of licence issue to the UK is £185, which I understand is the standard CPL issue fee.
Apparantly it's a very simple process - there's no real chance of not being able to transfer state of issue, however, it goes without saying that it will take the CAA over a month to process the application.
Perhaps someone reading pprune who has done their training in a JAA state and chaged state of issue could comment on the process..... any Jerez students out there?
Now another point has occured to me though.
If after doing the entire ATPL theory module in the UK, you want to take the CPL etc in Spain, would they require you to take their medical, and perhaps some other bits'n'bobs aswell (such as their ATPL theory), before issuing you with a Spanish CPL?
IH