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Launch of PLR Scheme

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21st January, 2015

The National Book Council (NBC) would like to announce that today, payments to Maltese authors according to the Public Lending Rights scheme have been issued for the first time ever. Said remuneration has been made possible following an extensive consultation process and a carefully formulated political and administrative plan to rule the issuing of payments.

The aim of these payments is that of recompensing Maltese authors for the use of their books in Public Libraries. This is widespread practice in Europe and is slowly picking up across the world. The introduction of the PLR is to bring Malta in line with the European Union 2006/115/EC directive.

For this year, Maltese authors will benefit from €25,000 worth of payments, with the first payment covering lending in the last season of 2014. Meanwhile, the NBC is doing its utmost to put the necessary pressure on Malta Libraries to accelerate the cataloging process so that authors who are not yet benefiting from this scheme on their recently published books, will have their books available on library shelves as soon as possible.

The list of authors and respective remuneration for the lending of books covering the period 15/9/2014 – 8/1/2014 is as follows:

Author	Number of books borrowed	Remuneration (€)
Darren Agius	4	1.47
Clare Azzopardi	924	340.63
Mario Azzopardi	175	64.51
Carmel Baldacchino	25	9.22
John A. Bonello	148	54.56
Rita Antoinette Borg	92	33.92
Steve Borg	45	16.59
Angela Briffa	18	6.64
Charles Briffa	218	80.37
Anna-Maria Buhagiar	2	.74
Mark Camilleri	58	21.38
Mark Camilleri, 1975-	6	2.21
Tony Cardona	4	1.47
Charles Casha	942	347.27
Kenneth Cassar	2	0.74
Arnold Cassola	3	1.11
Carmel G. Cauchi	848	312.62
Michael Cini	9	3.32
Mario Cutajar	5	1.84
Tony C. Cutajar	493	181.74
Carlo O. D’Emanuela	48	17.70
Dennis Darmanin	1	0.37
Sebastian Debono	129	47.56
Victor Fenech	317	116.86
Edgar Formosa	89	32.31
Henry Frendo	10	3.69
Audrey Friggieri	74	27.28
Oliver Friggieri	366	134.93
Lorraine Galea	1	0.37
Anton Grasso	169	62.30
Jesmond Grech	239	88.11
Rita Grech	767	282.75
Sergio Grech	41	15.11
Guido G. Lanfranco	146	53.82
Gino Lombardi	195	71.89
Charles Micallef St. John	306	112.81
Marija Montebello	4	1.47
Adrian Muscat	4	1.47
Theresa Pace	86	31.70
Ġorġ Peresso	208	76.68
Charles Daniel Saliba	52	19.17
Rita Saliba	222	81.84
Patrick Sammut	43	15.85
Salv Sammut	118	43.50
Saviour Sammut	76	28.02
Keith Sciberras	7	2.58
Lillian Sciberras	3	1.11
Carmel Scicluna	109	40.18
Charles B. Spiteri	402	148.20
Guże’ Stagno	54	19.91
Carmel Tabone	4	1.47
Natasha Turner	44	16.22
Alex Vella Gera	48	17.70
Mark Vella	29	10.69
William Zammit	3	1.11
Trevor Zahra	5128	1890.44

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