SARADNJA ARHIVA I ORGANA UPRAVE U CILJU ZAŠTITE I KORIŠTENJA ARHIVSKE GRAĐE OD JAVNOG ZNAČAJA (SA OSVRTOM NA ZAKON O SLOBODNOM PRISTUPU INFORMACIJAMA OD JAVNOG ZNAČAJA U REPUBLICI SRBIJI)
COOPERATION BETWEEN ARCHIVES AND GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT AND USE ARCHIVAL MATERIAL OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE (WITH REFERENCE TO THE LAW ON FREE ACCESS TO PUBLIC INFORMATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA)

Summary/Abstract: Precondition for the overall preservation of the archival and documentary material is the systematic and regular control of the record management system, i.e. control that records and documents are properly managed. Especially important is the control of the implementation of corresponding archival legislation in record management departments and offices in order to permanently preserve the archival heritage. Archival institutions are those authorities that keep control in the creating bodies, public or private equally. Free access to archival documents represents a rather delicate issue of pro­fessional and public conflict for archivists, i.e. the archivists have to make a decision between the prescribed recommendations and actual right to access to documents that are not accessible for the time being, due to many differ­ent reasons. The pressure for the access to documents in archives is getting stronger, the communication and information technologies for information exchange more sophisticated and in addition to that the ICA took a stand that archival material create a heritage and the memory of a State and thus a memory of a Region and the World. In such circumstances, the archival and administrative authorities need to define what documents will be classified as state secrets and what documents will keep the personal integrity protected. In other words, the State needs to define what are the documents created by sensitive state bodies that do not comply to the archival legislation in the sense that they are not free accessible for the public inspection.

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