Mepa over the past year rejected three applications for fireworks factories and approved one.

Another four applications are pending.

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said in reply to a parliamentary question that in the past 15 months, Mepa approved the development of a fireworks factory in the outskirts of Mgarr while three applications were refused, two at an early stage and the third on appeal. The localities were Rabat, Dingli and Gharb.

There are four pending applications, two for fireworks factories near Ghaxaq, one in Zurrieq and the other in Gharb.

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