Recommendation for a Council Recommendation on the 2015 National Reform Programme of Malta and delivering a Council opinion on the 2015 Stability Programme of Malta

On 8 July 2014, the Council adopted a recommendation on Malta’s National Reform Programme for 2014 and delivered its opinion on Malta’s updated Stability Programme for 2014. On 28 November 2014, in line with Regulation (EU) No 473/2013, the Commission presented its opinion on Malta’s draft budgetary plan for 2015.

On 28 November 2014, the Commission adopted the Annual Growth Survey, marking the start of the 2015 European Semester of economic policy coordination. On the same day, on the basis of Regulation (EU) No 1176/2011, the Commission adopted the Alert Mechanism Report, in which it did not identify Malta as one of the Member States for which an in-depth review would be carried out.

On 26 February 2015, the Commission published its 2015 country report for Malta. This assessed Malta’s progress in addressing the country-specific recommendations adopted on 8 July 2014.

On 17 April 2015, Malta submitted its 2015 National Reform Programme and on 30 April 2015 its 2015 Stability Programme. To take account of their interlinkages, the two programmes have been assessed at the same time.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2015)267: Follow the progress of this recommendation through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2015:267:FIN

ESO: Background Information: Website: Stability and covergence programmes submitted by member states 2006- http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-stability-and-convergence-programmes-1998/

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