Documents
To transport a body out of Malta, you usually need:
- a death certificate, an identity certificate and an embalming certificate;
- a burial or transit permit from the Burials Regulatory Unit, or a coroner's document;
- a certificate of safe transport from Port Health Services;
- a hermetically sealed inner coffin made of zinc or lead, or an approved foil liner, placed inside a wooden coffin.
Sanitary supervision for export during working hours costs 64 €, and an extra fee may apply outside working hours.
Source: Environmental Health Directorate: Repatriation of human remains and ashes
The funeral service prepares the documents together with us.
For an urn at the Ukrainian border, you need an airtight, sealed metal urn, a death certificate, a cremation certificate, and a certificate confirming that the urn contains no prohibited items, legalized at a Ukrainian consulate (Article 22 of the Law of Ukraine "On Burial and Funeral Affairs").
Malta, Italy, and Ukraine are parties to the Hague Apostille Convention. There is no separate Embassy of Ukraine in Malta; it is served by the Embassy of Ukraine in Italy. You can find the list of papers on the documents page, and read about border rules in the article customs clearance of an urn.
