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MALTA – National Strategic Reference Framework 2007-2013 Draft Document for Consultation Malta’s principal waste management facilities doubled. Construction and demolition waste made up 88.0 per cent of total in 2004. Available indicators highlight that Malta is lagging behind with regard to reduction targets of greenhouse gas emissions. Municipal waste generation is - on a per capita basis - relatively higher than EU benchmarks. This waste is exclusively land-filled. In terms of solid waste, current estimates suggest that each household and the average tourist generates approximately 2.2 kilograms and 1.5 kilograms of daily waste. Land-filling of municipal waste per capita is twice the EU average, while recycling accounts for only 1.0 per cent of the annual total waste generation in the Maltese Islands. Electricity and water provision is problematic, since all energy sources have to be imported and water is very scarce. The energy sector requires massive investment (generation and distribution) to sustain the growth in demand created by changing standard of living of citizens and increased economic activity. There is no generation of electricity from renewable sources, compared to a 13 per cent share of such electricity in the EU. Furthermore, the market suffers from structural weaknesses, namely the small size of the island, which places constraints on the location of renewal energy facilities, and the fact that the domestic electricity system is not connected to other systems. Currently, Malta’s primary energy requirements are all imported and the inland and aviation market needs are met by a state-owned enterprise, which also stores and distributes (wholesale) oil products.
MALTA – National Strategic Reference Framework 2007-2013 Draft Document for Consultation Chapter 5. The Strategic Direction for Malta 2007-2013 Following the delineation of this socio-economic situation and Malta’s position vis-à-vis the EU 25 benchmark, the National Strategic Reference Framework enlists the principal needs and challenges Malta faces in its quest to converge with the rest of the European Union over the 2007-2013 period. In view of Malta’s Vision to promote competitive, a high value adding economy and to achieve sustainable socio-economic development earmarked for a better quality of life, and in relation to the socio-economic context highlighted earlier, the country’s needs and challenges can be summarized in five main categories. These refer to the following: I. the need to improve Malta’s international competitiveness in its key economic sectors (the promotion of indigenous investment and facilitate the attraction and consolidation of foreign direct investment, to enable the diversification of tourism industry market segments, as well as to facilitate the development of the knowledge intensive economic activity in existing and new economic sectors); II. the urgent need to address existing deficiencies in Malta's physical infrastructure particularly those related to the environment, energy, transport and ICT; III. the need to ensure quality education and training for all and provide a knowledge and skill development environment which targets the responsive identification of future labour market requirements; IV. the need to raise the employment rate; V. the need to address Gozo’s regional distinctiveness, bolster economic activity and address the negative impact of the island's double insularity on its socio-economic development. The country’s strategic objectives for the period 2007 – 2013 are underpinned and based on present and future policies of public investment undertaken by the Government of Malta and co-financed by the national budget and European funds. Malta’s national development strategy is geared to meet the three strategic pillars of (1) economic competitiveness, (2) the need to safeguard and improve the environment and (3) the resolve to invest and facilitate the development of human capital.
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