EASA is typical of the EU bureaucracy !! You cannot call ice-cream ice cream unless its made from cream.
EASA was formed as a regulatory body i.e a mass of people churning out regulations for regulations sake or rather their own sakes as the vast money they are paid depends on them creating regulations.
I wonder if their own jobs were subject to the same oversight and time and expense in keeping their own jobs whether they would be so keen.
The only expense they know is the lavish restaurant and bars bills they claim back.
But this expensive monster has been created. Right back at the beginning EASA was almost closed down by the Commission for trying to reinvent the wheel. Shame they weren't aborted at birth as we are now paying for all that bureaucratic regulatory nonsense too late to close the gates