The Directive will apply to the assurance reports on the annual financial reports and the financial statements included therein, published by issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market in the European Union, for financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2021, and fall within scope of the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF).

The Permanent Secretary (Finance and Employment), Ministry for Finance and Employment, invites applications for the post of Senior Accountant in the Quality Assurance Unit within the Ministry for Finance and Employment.

The Accountancy Board will continue to accept the ACCA qualification as a course of theoretical instruction in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the granting of the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) warrant in Malta post-Brexit in the same way as it had been accepted prior to Brexit, and this subject to the qualification being inclusive of the Maltese Law and Taxation variants.