On 17 November 2020, the Maltese Parliament has issued Research & Development Regulations 2020 (Legal Notice No. 346 of 2020), and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Research and Development, Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the “principal regulations”.
These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into force on 1 October 2020, and provides the following measures in Regulation 5:
- The Corporation may provide additional assistance of up to 25% of eligible costs if the undertaking carries out an industrial research project;
- A project may receive additional assistance of not more than 15% of eligible costs of up to a maximum aid intensity of 80% of eligible costs if one of the following conditions is fulfilled:
- the project involves effective collaboration as outlined in the Guidelines; and
- the results of the project are widely disseminated through conferences, publications, open access repositories, or free or open-source software within one year of completion of the project and such intention is declared at the application stage.
Moreover, Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations shall be substituted by the following new regulation, providing that no aid will be granted under these regulations by the Corporation after 31 December 2023.
