The Cabinet has approved the ratification of six international conventions. These are:

The Convention for Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between European Union Member States of 29 May, 2000, and the relevant protocol, the protocol for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography; the European Council’s Convention on Money Laundering, and the Financing of Terrorism; The United Nations Convention against Corruption; the Convention for the Protection of Financial Instruments of the European Communities, and the relevant protocols; and the European Council’s Convention for Action against Human Trafficking.

The government has also introduced legislation in Parliament so that the law in Malta will conform with the provisions of these conventions.