On Friday the National Statistics Office invited the FOI to a meeting to give an introduction on the new Intrastat Declaration that Malta will be introducing on May 1.
Director-general of statistics Alfred Camilleri and his team gave an overview of the new system to FOI director-general Edwin Calleja and administration manager John B. Scicluna and discussed the best ways the industrial and the business community, members of the federation, could be informed and educated on the new system and how it operated.
It was agreed that a multi-pronged approach was to be adopted: distribution of handbooks, circulation via e-mail and fax of information sheets, and the organisation of an information meeting to clarify any outstanding queries.