Wara diskussjonijiet mall-Ministru Chris Said il-Gvern accetta
wahda mit-talbiet fundamentali tal-GRTU f'isem l-inkwilini ta' proprjeta
kummerrcjali mikrija, dik li jigi rikonoxxut id-dritt ta' right of first
refusal fuq offerta ta' kera ghal postijiet fejn il-kera ha tiskadi
skond it-termini tal-Ligi tal-kera kif approvata mill-Parlament.
Klikkja fuq it titli hawn taht:
Ftehim favur l-inkwilini kummercjali f’kirjit privati milquta hazin bil-Ligi tal-Kera.
Atlas Insurance PCC Limited and GRTU Services Limited
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excellent prices and exclusive benefits. Through this agreement, GRTU members
will benefit from various initiatives that will be introduced with the primary
aim of assisting the members with all their insurance needs.
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Malta Enterprise has launched a new scheme by means of
which companies that commission a digital game as a marketing tool to promote
their products or services online.
Through this scheme enterprises
may get a tax credit equivalent to 100% of the total subcontracted costs
incurred, up to a maximum of €15,000.
The integration of social media and online marketing
into different aspects of a business is a development that businesses cannot
ignore, and the scheme thus seeks to help them further embrace the new digital
technologies.
In addition, the Tax Credits for Digital Applications
Development scheme – which will be available until December 31, 2013 – will
also help in creating demand for digital games, thereby generating more
economic activity and facilitating further growth within the digital media
industry in Malta.
In order to qualify for the incentive, the digital
game should be available online and developed for at least one widely available
electronic device. The game should additionally educate users about the
beneficiary's products or services or serve as a promotional tool.
The full incentive description and eligibility
criteria may be viewed at:
In accordance with the Food Safety Act and Regulation
(EC) No 178 of 2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and
following information received via the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed,
the Environmental Health Directorate within the Superintendence of Public
Health wishes to inform the public that the following product may contain
traces of undeclared horse meat.
The Company involved was instructed to withdraw the
batch in question from the market, however since it reported that not all
consignment has been withdrawn, as it is done in these cases, this Directorate
is obliged to inform consumers of this recall.
For further information, the public is kindly requested
to contact the Health Inspectorate Services between 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on
telephone number 21337333, or by calling personally at its offices at
Continental Business Centre, Cutrico Buildings, Old Railway Track, Santa Venera
or by email
Product
Description: Lasagne alla Bolognese
Brand: Artica – Ricette Italiane
Weight:
750g
Date
of Minimum Durability: 15/05/2014
Lot:
12318
Origin:
Italy
Food consumption habits differ in EU countries.
Accurate, comprehensive and comparable data on food consumption are crucial,
when a new hazard is found in the food chain, for scientists to assess who is
exposed, through which foods and by how much.
Since 2007 EFSA started developing the Comprehensive
European Food Consumption Database which provides more extensive and detailed
information for a majority of EU countries in refined food categories and
specific population groups, including children. However, EU MS use different
methods to collect food consumption data, which makes it difficult to carry out
EU-wide analyses or comparisons.
EFSA has taken steps to harmonise the collection of
food consumption data to allow for more comprehensive exposure assessments. The
"What's on the Menu in Europe?" project aims to provide standardised
information on what people eat in all countries and regions across the EU. EFSA
continues to extend and update the databases with new data collected by MS.
Thanks to this, food consumption summary statistics for different countries and
age groups, are now accessible for use by all food safety and public health
experts.
The Naxxar Local Council has just published a business
directory titled Biżniss. This directory
was launched on Wednesday 6 March 2013 at Yorkdale Stationery, one of the main
outlets of Naxxar. Present for this
launch was Hon. Dr. Beppe Fenech Adami, Parliamentary Assistant at the Office
of the Prime Minister, the Mayor Dr. Maria Deguara, Councillors and
representatives of GRTU.
Through this directory the Council is promoting local
businesses whilst offering a service to its residents by providing them with
information about what is available at Naxxar.
This directory includes 144 businesses all listed under two different
categories. There are 113 different
categories prepared in such as way as to make searching for products and
services very straight forward. Biżniss
includes also a list of all businesses in alphabetical order which is very
similar to what is known as the white pages.
Biżniss also includes a map of the centre of Naxxar
and information of interest to the general public. This information consists of the history of
Naxxar, services offered by the Local Council, local organisations, useful
contacts such as public entities, voluntary organisations (Caritas etc) and
mass times. All information is presented
in both Maltese and English languages in full.
This directory is being distributed to all households
at Naxxar and will be available from all local shops as well as from the Local
Council. Non Naxxar residents may send
an email on to request a free copy.
This is one of many initiatives being taken by the
Naxxar Local Council to offer the best services possible for both residents and
the business community alike.
Discussions are also presently underway to make Biżniss accessible over
the internet and on smart phones.
The Naxxar Local Council would like to take this
opportunity to thank all local businesses, in particular advertisers, who made
this initiative possible; a successful partnership between the Local Council and the business community.
The GRTU Pharmacy division would like to urge the
Pharmacy owners who possess a pharmacy licence that they have to immediately
send in the consent form being sent to
them by email in order that the payments for the first quarter from POYC be
processed. Anyone who has not yet received a copy of the agreement and who has
not submitted the consent form is to contact Giselle or Liz at GRTU so that
they will be sent a copy of the Agreement that was signed in January. We urge
you to make sure that your form reaches us by the end of next week at the
latest.
A
partnership agreement between local stakeholders to find solutions to reduce
traffic congestion and Co2 emissions caused by freight vehicles has been signed
today at the Tarxien Local Council.
During
the meeting the partners Tarxien Local Council with Mayor Mr. Paul Farrugia and
Councillor Keith Darmanin, Paragon Europe with Mr. Andrea Demadonna (organizer
of the event), Eurofreight Ltd with Mr. Quentin Zahra, Local Wardens with
Authorised Officer Mr John Bonavia and GRTU with Ms. Carmen Borg stressed the
importance of bringing all stakeholders together to find ways of reducing the
impact on the environment that freight transport causes, whilst maintaining the
competitiveness of the sector in the industry. Tarxien mayor Chev Paul Farrugia
spoke about the initiatives such as a public forum and the involvement of the
Neighbourhood watch group to create public awareness and also involve the
citizens in the decision-making process.
The
Freight Quality Partnership is one of the key measures planned by the C-Liege,
an Intelligent Energy Europe Project partly co-financed by EACI and aimed at
empowering a cooperative approach between public and private stakeholders that
is targeted on the reduction of energetic and environmental impacts of freight
transport in European cities and regions. In order to reach this objective,
C-LIEGE will promote cleaner and energy efficient freight movements in urban
areas.
The
Freight Quality Partnership will consist of a permanent forum that will be
meeting every 3-4 months to discuss Freight Transport issues and will set a
strategy towards a better management of Freight Transport within the locality
of Tarxien through green measures that
have successfully been introduced and implemented at EU level. The forum hopes
to convene in April for its first official discussion.
The
Freight Quality Partnership in Tarxien aims at offering key stakeholders the
possibility to meet and come up with concrete proposals and also disseminate
good practice such as loading and uploading bays in front of shops which are
present in some areas. The forum will
represent the first of this kind in Malta and hopefully will attract the
interest of other Maltese localities.
Besides
the LFDP, the FQP will discuss other measures based on the C-Liege list of best
practices already in place in several EU cities.
The collection of mixed waste from Households Street
Sweeping within Valletta Local Council Tender VLC SSCRA/3/12 Cleaning of the
Commercial Centre in Valletta Tender VLC CCC/2/12 After the closing date of the
tenders. Valletta Local Council awarded all three tenders to Waste Collection
Limited.
This decision however aggrieved two GRTU members, who
placed an appeal with the Public Contracts Review Board. These tenders are
financed by public funds.
To date two of these appeals which were lodged by a
GRTU member have been heardand Valletta Local Council lost both these appeals.
During the appeal process the individual was assisted by GRTU ‘s Joe Attard who
also happens to be the CEO of Green MT and by a leading lawyer, Dr George
Cutajar. For all intents and purposes another tender, the collection of mixed
waste from households, also recommended for award to Waste Collection Limited
has been appealed by another GRTU member. The appeal is still pending at the time
of writing.
GRTU Malta Chamber of Small and Medium Enterprises on
behalf of its member duly referred the case also to the Director of Local
Councils stating that our member appealed both tender awards and in terms of
Regulation 84(2) of the Public Procurement Regulations 2010 (LN296 of 2010),
the Review Board has issued its decision in both cases. (Cases
510 and 511).
In both cases the Board recommended that the tenders
be cancelled and that another call be issued. The Board further recommended
that the deposit paid by the appellant for the appeal to be lodged should be
reimbursed. The issue now lies in the fact that the recommended tenderer, Waste
Collection Limited is actually doing the stated scope of works at the Valletta
Local Council. As such GRTU has now requested the Department of Local
Government to issue a time frame by which these tenders should be re issued,
without any further delay and based on the parameters when they were actually
issued.
Of course there were those at the Local Council who thought
that they were above board, who thought that they could trample over one and
all and make sure that the tenders were awarded to whoever they wanted. But of
course the Public Contracts Review Board provided a bollocking to the said
Local Council, even though the Mayor came up with the absurd excuse that these
tenders needed to be awarded with urgency, at the hearing.
Since the appeal was lodged by a GRTU member and
because Green MT CEO, together with the very able lawyer, aptly and diligently
defended his member at the hearing of the Review Board, the Local Council
decided that it is time for payback and therefore did not renew Green MT's
current agreement for recyclable collections within the locality.
We are not afraid of such actions. Such actions only
strengthen us in our belief that right is right and that we were correct in
ensuring that our aggrieved member was duly right in his appeal. The days of
the jungle are long past and part of history. Despite Valletta Local Council's
payback strategy to use another Scheme as from 1st March 2013, we will continue
to do what is duly right at law. Arrogance does not deter us from doing what is
morally and legally correct.
To add insult to injury Green MT was only informed by
this decision through the media. This is the way cowards act ! The
administrative staff at the Local Council was duty bound to inform the Scheme
of the decision taken by the Local Council. But why should the Executive
Secretary even consider putting pen to paper or communicate such a decision
taken by the Local Council?
This is the real reason why Valletta Local Council did
not renew its current agreement with Green MT. Green MT is still Malta's
leading Waste Packaging Compliance Scheme. A Scheme is not measured by how many
Local Councils it manages to take over, and saying this, both Schemes currently
have 34 Local Councils each, but by the amount of packaging waste their
producer members place on the market, and by the amount of tons each Scheme is
able to recover. In this case reports issued by both Schemes clearly show that
Green MT is by far the largest, both in market placement and also in actual
recovery from both Local Councils and other sources.
These reports can be seen and bought from MEPA. They
are public documents. They are issued by the same Schemes. Nothing can change
the real facts. Facts are what they are.
