The 4th of April will mark the start of the new Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) as the national regulator on the environment.

With a mission to safeguard the environment for a sustainable quality of life, ERA shall be maintaining consultation with all stakeholders so as to promote and instill sound environmental management.

ERA’s main goals are:

  • To mainstream environmental targets and objectives across Government and society;
  • To take the leading role in advising Government on environmental policy-making at the national level, as well as in the context of international environmental negotiations;
  • To develop evidence-based policy; backed by a robust data gathering structure; and
  • To draw up plans, provide a licensing regime and monitor activities having an environmental impact, and to integrate environmental considerations within the development control process.

The Authority was established by the new Environment Protection Act I of 2016 and its Board set up through Government Notice 132 of 2016.

Further information is available on the authority’s website era.org.mt or requested via email on [email protected]

For further information, please contact:

Claire Cordina Borg

Unit Manager National Affairs

Strategy & Communication Directorate

Environment and Resources Authority (ERA)

T: + 356 2292 3500   E: [email protected]  and  [email protected]