The European Commission yesterday stepped up infringement proceedings against Malta over its failure to fully transpose and implement the Common European Asylum System.

Greece and Malta, it said, have not communicated the necessary transposition measures, the Commission said in a statement.

The Home Affairs Ministry said that the laws to which the Commission was referring had been approved by Cabinet and that they would be published today.

The Common European Asylum System sets out common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection while the Reception Conditions Directive deals with access to reception conditions for asylum seekers while they wait for their applications to be examined.

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