Anti-bureaucracy czar Michael Falzon this morning said the government will consider removing business licenses where these were not necessary.

Speaking at a business breakfast organised by the Malta Employers Association, Dr Falzon said his was not an easy job to curtail excessive bureaucracy but the government was committed to achieve results.

"We are undertaking a confidence building exercise at the moment," he said, adding one of the options being considered is the removal of licenses for businesses.

Dr Falzon said the government was in the process to enact a family business law that will set out a framework for succession planning that was a matter of concern for family businesses.

The event focussed on small and medium enterprises with the main speakers being entrepreneurs.

According to MEA legal affairs executive Charlotte Camilleri, small companies often had no knowledge of legal requirements, a situation exacerbated by the lack of readily-available information out there.

The MEA used the occasion to roll out a new service for members, an SME help desk, that follows a series of television programmes produced by the MEA and broadcast every Sunday on TVM2 aimed at imparting information on job-related matters.