A report presented in Parliament today by Government Whip Godfrey Farrugia recommends that the age of consent for sexual activity in Malta be reduced to 16. The report also includes having condom machines on the premises of Post-secondary and Tertiary education institutions.

This report was compiled in collaboration between the parliamentary committees of health, family affairs and social affairs.

The conclusions, which were reached and announced in November 2015, claimed that youths from the age of 16 should all have access to protection and medical care without their parents' or guardians' consent.

This report also emphasizes the need for sexual education to be compulsory in all schools, with wide-spread sexual education including media campaigns and family-based education included.

It was said at the time that one of the inspirations for this report was a monitored increase in sexual activity among teenagers under 18 years of age, as well as the legal anomaly which allows 16 year-olds to get married, while still disallowing sexual activity before youths are 18.