A jumbo screen installed outside the Super One premises in Marsa is not covered with a Mepa permit.

Parliamentary Secretary Michael Falzon said in reply to a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi and supplementary questions by Claudette Buttigieg and David Agius that an application to sanction had been filed and no law enforcement action could be taken by Mepa pending a decision. 

Ms Buttigieg and Mr Agius asked whether that meant that one could install a jumbo screen and make money from it, with Mepa unable to act. Ms Buttigieg asked whether action would have been taken had she set up a jumbo screen without a permit, instead of the Labour Party or Super One.

Dr Falzon said this was not an issue about the Labour Party because there were many such jumbo screens belonging to different owners, even in Marsa itself. He again quoted the law and said an application to sanction had been filed.

(The application, filed by Jason Micallef on behalf of One Productions is "To sanction existing LED advanced electronic billboard.")

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said this was an example of anomalies in the law and decisions by the Tribunal over the years which needed to be removed.

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