Welcome to EASA land!! What do you expect - simplicity, transparency, information, help or guidance from a knowledgeable source?
No chance of getting the same answer from any source over here mate, the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing! Hardly surprising really as the rules were written by bureaucratic morons who are largely past their sell by date, and interpreted (differently) on a state by state basis due to their inability to understand (or translate) legislation written in twenty odd different languages!