S.L. 117.31 Art. 6Eligibility. Cap. 447. S.L. 441.07

Only the following persons or entities shall be eligible to obtain a permit to operate a stall and participate in a Farmers’ Market:

(a) a person registered with the Department of Agriculture as a full-time or a part-time farmer;

(b) a producer organisation registered in terms of the Producer Organisations Act which sells agricultural produce cultivated or grown locally by its members;

(c) a registered cooperative constituted within the agriculture or fisheries sector;

(d) a person who produces products being direct derivatives of local agricultural, animal husbandry or fisheries primary produce: Provided that a farmer eligible under paragraph (a) shall be allowed to offer for sale local agricultural produce cultivated, grown or landed in Malta by any other person registered with the Department of Agriculture as a full-time or part-time farmer: Provided further that no person in possession of a licence of street hawker, market hawker, peddler or busker in terms of the Trading Licences Regulations, or in possession of a permit or licence to purchase agricultural produce from an agricultural marketing centre, shall be eligible to obtain a permit to operate a stall and participate in a Farmers’ Market, or to act as a substitute or as an assistant to a permit holder.