Římská archivní konvence
Roman Archival Convention

Summary/Abstract: On 6 April 1922, an archival agreement was signed in Rome between the seven successor states of the Habsburg monarchy (Austria, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakia). This so-called Rome Archival Convention was intended to set the rules for the restitution of archival records and files of the central authorities of the monarchy in the successor states, thus clarifying the general rules contained in the Peace Treaties of St.Germain-en-Laye and Trianon of 1919–1920. Negotiations on the Convention, which began in 1921, were complicated by the differing positions of the various countries. Some of them (such as Czechoslovakia) preferred mutual bilateral agreements rather than a general convention. Although the Convention was not ratified by all states (Hungary never ratified it), it is an interesting document of international archival law.

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