Martin Scicluna’s letter (‘False prospectus’, May 4) on the new European border and coast guard law, drafted and piloted by EPP Group member of the European Parliament for Malta and Gozo, Roberta Metsola, contains a number of erroneous statements.

He writes that the law is still provisional and that it still needs to pass through committee. That is not correct.

The new regulation was voted through the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee last April 2 and voted through the European Parliament plenary, with a huge majority, on April 17.

Member states, including Malta, had voted in favour of the new law on April 1 at the Coreper II meeting composed of each member states’ permanent representatives.

All of the above is publicly available information.

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