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13 NEWS maltatoday | SUNDAY • 13 FEBRUARY 2022 t: +356 2292 6148 e: arpa.mafa@gov.mt w: www.arpa.gov.mt Agriculture and Rural Payments Agency Luqa Road, Qormi QRM9075 – Malta Project Officer (Paying Agency) Interested candidates are invited to apply for the position of Project Officer (Paying Agency) with the Agriculture and Rural Payments Agency (ARPA) within the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Animal Rights (MAFA). Prospective project officers shall be requested to fulfil positions and assigned tasks in areas within the Paying Agency`s organisation structure. The Agency's remit in the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy, particularly in the control and payment of the relevant EU funds may be viewed at www.arpa.gov.mt This position offers an attractive remuneration package with potential career prospects. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, then you are to submit applications through the Online Government Recruitment Portal https://recruitment.gov.mt by the closing time and date of this call for applications 17:15 CET on Friday 21 st February 2022. Only candidates who are eligible under the details which can be viewed in the call will be considered. Further details may be obtained by calling us on 22924512 or by sending an email on humanresources.mafa@gov.mt. Project Officer (Paying Agency) Interested candidates are invited to apply for the position of Project Officer (Paying Agency) with the Agriculture and Rural Payments Agency (ARPA) within the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Animal Rights (MAFA). Prospective project officers shall be requested to fulfil positions and assigned tasks in areas within the Paying Agency`s organisation structure. The Agency's remit in the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy, particularly in the control and payment of the relevant EU funds may be viewed at www.arpa.gov.mt This position offers an attractive remuneration package with potential career prospects. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, then you are to submit applications through the Online Government Recruitment Portal https://recruitment.gov.mt by the closing time and date of this call for applications 17:15 CET on Friday 21 st February 2022. Only candidates who are eligible under the details which can be viewed in the call will be considered. Further details may be obtained by calling us on 22924512 or by sending an email on humanresources.mafa@gov.mt. JAMES DEBONO THE proposed reconstruction of a fireworks factory whose explo- sion in 2010 left five people dead, will impinge on public safety due to its proximity to a picnic area managed by the local council. The picnic area is located just 140m from the ruins of the fac- tory now earmarked for recon- struction in an application pub- lished a few weeks ago. "Since the Planning Authori- ty had authorised a picnic area which inevitably attracts a large number of people, it cannot au- thorise a fireworks factory so close to it, as this would pose an evident danger to the pub- lic," the local council said in an objection filed on its behalf by lawyers Claire Bonello and Georgine Grech. The council warned that the factory would be adjacent to the area where it hosts an annual kite festival. A ring road which provides ac- cess to the historical San Dimitri chapel and the picnic area is also in the immediate vicinity. Cur- rent rules preclude fireworks factory from a 183-meter radius from roads. The only exceptions are rural roads, roads which provide ac- cess to fields, or roads providing access to the fireworks factory itself. The objectors complained that the law failed to give an ade- quate definition of "rural roads" but contend that since the road is asphalted and is used regular- ly to access different parts of the village, it cannot be categorised as a rural road. The factory is also 60m away from a Natura 2000 site recog- nized for its scientific impor- tance in 2019. The proposed development would take up 3,964 sq.m of land outside development zones on the edge of the locality if it were to be approved. The reconstruc- tion of the factory would take place a mere 250 metres from the chapel of San Dimitri. In a local referendum held back in 2010 following the tragic acci- dent, Għarb residents had voted against the construction of new firework facilities in the locality. But over the past years the Plan- ning Authority has approved two new fireworks factories, outside the development zones. Application foresees reconstruction of a fireworks factory, which had left five dead in 2010 explosion Gharb objects to fireworks factory near picnic area The council warned that the factory would be adjacent to the area where it hosts an annual kite festival. A ring road which provides access to the historical San Dimitri chapel and the picnic area is also in the immediate vicinity.