Note to readers: This paper focuses only on
the application of the State aid rules to the COVID-19 pandemic and
how these rules can ease the resulting economic impact on
undertakings. The situation is constantly evolving with measures
being pronounced in a span of a few days. To the extent possible,
we will do our utmost to update this paper in line with
developments.
A. Introduction
There have been strong calls from various industry sectors for
Malta to roll-out concrete financial aid to assist undertakings
based in Malta to cope with the devastating economic effects of the
global COVID-19 pandemic.
Malta has already implemented two aid measures over the past few
days and on 18 March 2020 it announced a set of other aid measures
which are yet to be introduced.
