Hi Genghis
Thanks for the explanation. It's interesting to hear that most people just go straight to the Part that applies to their job and wouldn't necessarily be aware of the cover reg.
As for your remark on application process, that is beyond my knowledge since I don't work for EASA and not familiar with CS-23.
I am in the process of writing a guidance manual with the purpose of explaining how to go about finding regulations, understanding their lay-out, how to go about reading them, etc. and one of the purpose of the survey is to try to understand what are the main issues people encounter with dealing with EU regs. Hopefully, I will be able to successfully address some of these points in the manual so as to help the reader overcome any difficulties encountered when reading regs etc. It will go on my blog for free downloading by anyone who may find it useful for their work or their office.
But as you have brought up this point about application, this has made me curious, so I will have a little dig around.
Kind regards, Delphine