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ARTICLE · 01 DECEMBER 2025

Highlights Of The Recent Reforms To The National Interest (Enabling Powers) Act

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On 14 November 2025, the National Interest (Enabling Powers) Act (the "Revised NIA") was published in the Government Gazette, marking the first substantive revision to Malta's sanctions framework since April 2020.

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Karl Wismayer
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On 14 November 2025, the National Interest (Enabling Powers) Act (the "Revised NIA") was published in the Government Gazette, marking the first substantive revision to Malta's sanctions framework since April 2020. This latest reform represents a broad modernisation effort, introduced to keep pace with the significant developments that have reshaped EU restrictive measures in recent years.

Below, we take a closer look at the key changes in the Revised NIA and the resultant implications for Malta's sanctions framework.

1. Strengthening alignment with the EU restrictive measures

The Revised NIA now explicitly transposes and implements the latest EU sanctions and financial transparency rules across the following three major EU instruments:

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