When EU 1321/2014 was published last year, coming into force 20 days later, it was clearly stated that its purpose was to consolidate and replace EC 2042/2003 and all subsequent Amending Regulation into a new document.
That being the case, it would make sense for EC 2042/2003 to be repealed, and lo 'n behold, Article 7 of EU 1321/2014 says...
Regulation (EC) No 2042/2003 is repealed.
The UK CAA's latest bulletin on EASA affairs informs us that...
The EASA Committee met on 22-23 April. The agenda covered the following items on the first day:
i) Update on on-going adoption procedures
Adoption of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2042/2003 on maintenance procedures for GA aircraft is currently expected around June and it is likely to enter into force around July, being applicable 20 days later.
Maybe it is possible that to a European bureaucrat it makes perfect sense to "adopt" in 2015 a Regulation that was first launched in 2003, and was repealed in 2014. But in the real world outside the Tower of Babel in Cologne it is incomprehensible.
I never thought I would say this, but I do believe that the UK would be better off, and have infinitely safer air transport and GA industries, without the burdensome antics of those clowns in the said Tower.