Proposed amendments to the Embryo Protection Act have received the blessing of Malta's Commissioner for Children. 

In a statement issued on Monday afternoon, the Commissioner said that the amendments protected children's rights to an individual identity and their right to stable and loving care. 

"The Office of the Commissioner for Children recommends full support to prospective parents to make this difficult experience a fulfilling and rewarding one," the statement said. 

MPs are currently debating changes to IVF laws which would allow for embryos to be frozen, with any excess embryos put up for adoption. The amendments will also extend IVF eligibility to same-sex couples and single mothers. 

Embryo freezing provisions included in the amendments, Commissioner Pauline Miceli said, created a framework which would maximise the chances of individual embryos surviving and developing healthily.  

Children born through embryo donation would have the right to know the identity of their donor parents once they turned 16, the Commissioner said, adding that "the fact that the bill proposes that gamete donation by the same donor can happen once only preserves the uniqueness of the child’s biological identity."

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Furthermore, the Bill put children born through medically assisted means on a par with all other children, she said. 

The Children's Commissioner also approved of extending IVF eligibility to same-sex parents and single mothers, saying this was a "natural consequence" of broader acceptance of different forms of family units. 

"Children's rights advocates are more concerned with the content and quality of the care children receive from their parents than with the parents’ sexual orientation and marital status," she said.