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FI(A) privileges according to Part-FCL.
As Opinion 05/2017 was filtered into Part-FCL there was consideration towards FI(A) holders who do not have a (national) commercial pilot history or a commercial pilot license. In Finland, these persons generally only hold a PPL(A) due to medical and age reasons. As a rule they have not even converted their long time ago acquired national CPL privileges into EASA licenses. Some of them have fulfilled the age old ICAO CPL knowledge requirement during their FI(A) courses as an addendum to the instructor course.
As new instructors are emerging who do NOT hold or have held commercial licenses there will be a diversification of instructors arising in the future, as the requirements for a CPL license or the required knowledge will prevent them even from attempting to remove the LAPL only limitation from their licenses. We will have retirement age "senior" instructors and Young instructors, but no path to cross the abyss.
As a result, as GA people are reluctant to switch from PPL(A) holders to LAPL(A), there is a possible lack of instructors who are proficient and not legally qualified to extend SEP(land) or SEP(sea) privileges. The LAPL only FI(A) privilege is interpreted as to limiting to only LAPL license instruction and nothing further AFAIK.
The Part-FCL limitations will also put an end to separate Class rating instruction, as the group of pilots who are legally able to instruct in SEA class rating will be scarce in the future.
The purpose of the opinion was to improve GA instruction in general, but the result ended quite short of the runway.
The Opinion 05/2017 can be deemed a failure as far instructor privileges for PPL(A) license holders are considered.

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