Study on the extent to which and how Member States used the ESF and the ERDF in the programming periods 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 to support their justice system : Member State chapter : Malta

During the 2007-2013 funding period, two projects specifically related to justice were selected and funded through the Operational Programme 'Empowering People for more jobs and a better quality of life' (OPII). The OPs covering the funding period 2014-2020 refer to justice-related projects as possible areas of intervention, but as yet no justice-related projects have been funded. Information on the two projects funded during the 2007-2013 programming period was attained through desk research and information directly obtained from the MA which manages both ERDF and ESF. The greatest challenge for this research was the lack of published documents, particularly at the level of projects. The level of detail on projects as published online by the MA is restricted to the name of the project, the beneficiary, the Priority Axis from which the project is funded, and the expenditure allocated to the project. The Structural Funds Database and project-level database are not publicly available. Some of the project-level information has been collected through published documents by the MA, such as project code, project summary and project budget. These documents, which provide a list of funded projects are available online, mainly on the MA website and from the official pages of government ministries. Following a request to the MA, the Authority provided additional project-level information including the data reported on project-specific indicators. The beneficiaries, which included the Department of Justice under the remit of the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Governance, have also been contacted for further project-related information. However, at the date of submission of the report, no response had been received.