Update 12.50pm
A small group of NGOs has distanced itself from proposals made by a civil society council to reform controversial charity laws and said it will report the matter to the Council of Europe.
The organisations that form the Volontarjat Action Group say the proposals, submitted by the Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector last week, do not satisfy the minimum standards needed for NGOs to function properly.
While the MCVS proposals call for laws brought into force without consultation to be amended, the VAG says the legal notice introducing them should be completely revoked and redrafted from scratch.