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The European Commission Initiates a Public Consultation on the EU Merger Guidelines Antitrust, Competition and Trade

The European Commission Initiates a Public Consultation on the EU Merger Guidelines

The European Commission (the ‘Commission’) has launched a public consultation on the  8th May 2025 to gather feedback on its ongoing review of the EU merger guidelines, with the aim of updating the framework for assessing the competitive impact of mergers. This review seeks to reflect changes in the economy, by giving adequate weight to innovation, efficiency, sustainability, and other less major transformational needs amongst others. Feedback to the Commission may be submitted by 3rd September, 2025. The consultation covers both the horizontal merger guidelines (which were published in 2004), applicable to mergers between competitors, and the non-horizontal merger guidelines…
Josefa Muscat and Annalies Muscat
16th May 2025
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Mamo TCV in Collaboration with FHRD to Hold Training on Maltese Employment Law Employment and Industrial RelationsNews

Mamo TCV in Collaboration with FHRD to Hold Training on Maltese Employment Law

Mamo TCV Advocates in collaboration with the Foundation for Human Resources Development (FHRD) will be organising the Level 5 Award in the Practical Applications of Maltese Employment Law.  The training will commence on the 10th June 2025. For programme brochure, booking and information on eligible funding please contact FHRD on (+356) 21313550 or via e-mail at training@fhrd.org
Mamo TCV Advocates
5th May 2025
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Malta’s Transposition of the NIS 2 Directive: S.L. 460.41 Telecoms, Media & Technology

Malta’s Transposition of the NIS 2 Directive: S.L. 460.41

Following Malta’s Draft Order transposing the EU NIS 2 Directive, which closed for public consultation on 7 October 2024, as an EU Member State, Malta was obliged to transpose EU Directive 2022/2555 (‘NIS 2’) by 17 October 2024. The transposition was finally implemented on 8 April 2025 through Legal Notice 71 of 2025 which creates the Measures for a High Common Level of Cybersecurity across the European Union (Malta) Order, 2025 as Subsidiary Legislation 460.41 (S.L. 460.41). It should however be noted that at time of writing, S.L. 460.41 is not yet in force, though it is expected to come…
Nicole Bonett and Warren Ciantar
22nd April 2025
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Fintech Insights #10 –
Raising Funds Through Tokenisation FinTech

Fintech Insights #10 –
Raising Funds Through Tokenisation

The EU’s process towards further harmonisation of its Capital Markets Union (“CMU”) provides a timely context for the implementation of tokenisation. The CMU aims to create a single, integrated financial market across the EU, fostering cross-border investments, mobilising citizens’ personal savings and reducing the reliance on bank-driven financing. The implementation of tokenisation within capital markets can help achieve these objectives by enabling frictionless trading and unlocking access to new pools of capital whilst increasing liquidity. As discussed in the previous insight on tokenisation in Malta, tokenisation reimagines asset representation by embedding ownership and legal rights into programmable tokens recorded on…
Mario Mizzi
17th April 2025
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European Blockchain Sandbox 3rd Cohort & Best Practices Webinar Telecoms, Media & Technology

European Blockchain Sandbox 3rd Cohort & Best Practices Webinar

The selection process for the third and final cohort of the European Blockchain Sandbox has been completed and the final twenty selected use cases have now been announced. Moreover, the European Blockchain Sandbox will soon be publishing the second cohort’s Best Practices Report which shall contain an overview of the regulatory best practices identified. The Report will be launched during a public webinar to be held on the 29th April 2025 at 14:00 CET, wherein the public is invited to ask any questions they may have regarding the Report. In conjunction, the award for the Most Innovative Regulator for the…
Mamo TCV Advocates
15th April 2025
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MFSA Consolidates Maltese CASP Supervision FinTech

MFSA Consolidates Maltese CASP Supervision

On the 4th of April 2025, the Malta Financial Services Authority (“MFSA”) published a circular addressed to all crypto-asset service providers (“CASPs”) licensed under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Act, Chapter 647 of the Laws of Malta, which integrates the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (“MiCAR”). The circular informs CASP licence-holders (“LH”) of the publication of the Crypto-Asset Service Provider Return (“CASP Return”). The CASP Return forms part of the MFSA’s efforts to build a consistent and transparent regulatory framework for CASPs in Malta. Through the introduction of formalised reporting obligations, the Authority will support greater regulatory oversight and contribute to…
Mamo TCV Advocates
8th April 2025