Malta goes against intelligence services standards– EU Agency for Fundamental Rights

The European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has highlighted a rather concerning fact about Malta’s security services. The report, called ‘Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU’, highlights that decisions by the Maltese Commissioner for Security Services cannot be subject to appeal, nor can they be questioned before a court. “This goes against the well-established standards requiring decisions of non-judicial dispute mechanisms to be supervised by a judicial body,” the FRA noted this week. While parliamentary and expert oversight bodies are by law structurally and formally capable...