The Malta Amateur Athletics Association is the national federation in Malta for the sport of ATHLETICS and is a full member of the international governing bodies of the sport: IAAF and European Athletics . In its capacity as the national federation for athletics its aims, responsibilities and jurisdiction are: to encourage , promote, develop and control amateur athletics in Malta . To promote and organise or assist in promoting and organising , the holding of amateur athletic events, championships, competitions, demonstrations and events, to select competitors to represent the Association or the Country , and to pay the expenses of persons so selected, and to enter into any arrangements which may be necessary or convenient in connection therewith or with any of the objects of the Association. To arrange and provide for, or join in arranging and providing for the holding of courses for the instruction and teaching of athletics to teachers, coaches, instructors. To lay down and enforce rules and regulations covering all aspects of amateur athletics, to improve the management of athletic meetings by the establishment of uniform regulations, to define the status and prescribe the conduct of amateur athletics and to deal repressively with any abuses in amateur athletics.