Macca,
You would be best of asking the POLICE this, as EBC YELLOWSTUFF is approved for the traffic cars, but Ferrodo/MIntex are not.
There is nothing wrong with EBC, been using them over 15 years myself, the greens are just too soft for me, REDSTUFF CERAMIC are excellent, but yellows are awsome, I have used all the mintex ones, all the ferrodo DS range, most pagid, mintex are good but soft and very dusty, ferrodo just have no feel, and fade just after they start working at thier best, which takes heat.
To give you an example I gave away a set of mintex 1155 rear pads that had 200 miles on them to Retro Al.
My 1st choice if Yellows then reds(ceramic), I believe at the moment if you buy yellows and then find a better road pad ebc will refund you.
A disc is not a disc, tiny cracks around the holes of drilled ones common, but nothing to worry about, I've had discs split before now with 2mm gap!!, that's why ebc dimple them now, but my advice would be go for grooved, but wide grooved, not the narrow crap.
Another problem I had with the ds pads were constant glazing, this is where the binding agent(glue) comes to the surface, and stops effective braking, grooved discs mostly eliminate this as they constantly scrub/deglaze the pad, so they do wear out a bit sooner, but not enough to worry about.
I ALWAYS take the anti rattle shims from the rear of the ebc pads I use, I have never not once in 15 heard a peep from any ebc pads noise wise.
You may not like ebc, until you try you will never know, butif a bit of a nutter driver wise I'd get yellows otherwise reds.
tabetha