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9 NEWS maltatoday | SUNDAY • 12 MAY 2024 OPEN CALLS FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS IMPORTANT NOTICE Extension of Closing Date for Project Proposals under the European Social Fund+ 2021-2027 The Managing Authority would like to notify interested applicants that the closing date for the below call under Priority 2 - Fostering Active Inclusion for All is being extended as follows: • Call 6 – Specific Objective: 4.9 – Integration of third country nationals open to Government Departments, public entities, social partners, Non-Governmental Organisations and voluntary organisations is being extended from 20 th May 2024 to 22 nd July 2024, noon. For further information, the Managing Authority can be contacted via email at fondi.eu@gov.mt. LETTER OF INTENTION Mekanika Ltd. declares the intention for the company to register for an Employment Agency License in accordance with L.N. 270 of 2023 EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT (CAP.452) Employment Agencies Regulations, 2023. The activities proposed to be carried out focus on the provision of workers with a view to making them available to a third party including: 1. Temporary work services involve providing workers to a third party. 2. The third party assigns tasks to the temporary workers. 3. Outsourcing services involve providing workers to a third party. 4. The outsourcing agency, including contractors and subcontractors, supervises, directs, and controls the workers. Official Registered Address: Gasan Group Offices, Gasan Centre Level 4, Triq il-Merghat, Zone 1, Central Business District, Birkirkara, CBD1020 Company registered number: C3238 LETTER OF INTENTION Jennifer Brincat - 226985M (Clean Solutions) declares the intention for the business to register for an Employment Agency License in accordance with L.N. 270 of 2023 EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT (CAP.452) Employment Agencies Regulations, 2023. The activities proposed to be carried out focus on the provision of workers with a view to making them available to a third party including: 1. Temporary work services involve providing workers to a third party. 2. The third party assigns tasks to the temporary workers. 3. Outsourcing services involve providing workers to a third party. 4. The outsourcing agency, including contractors and subcontractors, supervises, directs, and controls the workers. Official Registered Address: Blk.A8, Apt.2 Triq Pietru D'Armenia, Pembroke. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 All the 13 applications involved properties that were covered by a development permit, but includ- ed irregularities deviating from the original permit. Significantly 12 were solely located in Gozo, while one villa – whose show- er-room fell into the ODZ – was in Madliena. In total, the PA has so far re- ceived 63 regularisation appli- cations for such properties, the authority told MaltaToday in an information request. Eight of these properties are mostly located within the devel- opment zone, with only a small fraction of ODZ land, and anoth- er property fully located in a rural hamlet. Most of the illegalities sanctioned involved breaches of sanitary regulations, involving the size of internal yards or the height of habitable floors. But one case in Qala involved the regularisation of a swimming pool's decking area, extending to 65 square metres, around the 12.4sq.m pool, entirely located in the ODZ. This was still deemed in line with the 2014 rural poli- cy which allows decking areas as large as 75sq.m. The regularised properties com- prise two Xagħra apartments in the same block, and a petnhouse; a maisonette in Marsalforn; a ga- rage in Zebbug; two apartments in the same block in Għajnsielem; a terraced house and an apart- ment in Qala; a farmhouse in Sannat and an apartment in Na- dur. Another request was to reg- ularise an entire penthouse that did not form part of the original permit for a block of apartments, a small fraction of which also fell in the ODZ. In another case involving a farmhouse in Sannat, the PA regularised a pool and the use of aluminium instead of timber ma- terial in the apertures. But in this case the only ODZ structures to be regularised was a pump room. Four of the applications were approved despite being recom- mended for refusal. These cases involved internal yards of flats lo- cated in apartment blocks where the case officer expressed concern that approval could prejudice oth- er apartments in the same block. Regularisation applications for ODZ illegalities are not published separately and are decided upon by the same board responsible for regularisations in the devel- opment zone chaired by Elisabeth Ellul. The rules effectively enable property owners to fully sanction illegalities that would otherwise prevent their properties from be- ing legally sold. A freedom of information re- quest by MaltaToday in July 2023 revealed that the Environment and Resources Authority had ex- pressed concerns on the impact of the regularisation scheme, warn- ing against the effoect of allowing urban development outside the building zones, something the ERA said "would be of environ- mental concern". It also presented recommen- dations to ensure regularisations are kept "to the barest minimum", such as the scale and types of el- igible irregularities being clearly specified and limited to minor in- terventions, and that no develop- ment should be regularise when it resulted in adverse impact on the environment. The legal notice is presently be- ing challenged by environmental NGOs in the law courts. 63 requests to regularise properties with minor illegalities protruding beyond edge of building zone