Arhivski vjesnik, No. 45, 2002.
Professional paper
Co-Operation and Mutual Responsibilities of Owners and the State Archives of The Republic of Macedonia In Preservation of Records and Archives According to Current Legal Provisions
Dime Jurukov
Abstract
The owners and The State Archives of the Republic of Macedonia are obliged to co-operate providing preservation of records and archives related to the Law on archival records (1990), Regulations on records and archival management (1996) and the Instructions on methods and technique conducting records and archives in records and archival management (1997).
The Law, regulates rights and responsibilities of owners treating records, and the role of the State Archives of the Republic of Macedonia, and its special service, Sector for supervision and preservation of archives at owners, performing professional tasks under the state bodies, institutions and other corporate bodies.
The Regulations on records and archival management, working out thoroughly the Law, both with the Instructions, represents the legal instruments arranging administrational managing issues of creators, regarding the time of creation of records till its transfer to archival institution. The system regulates the records and archival management uniquely at whole territory of the Republic of Macedonia. The Regulations offers the possibility of conducting the register in the system of automatic data processing in the software package produced by the State Archives of Macedonia which finds its practical implementation in some institutions in the Republic of Macedonia.
The most important part of the Instructions concerns the Classification scheme and the List on categories of archives and records provided, regularly updated by owners, under the control of the State Archives. Classification scheme consists ofcgeneral and special part referring to classification of records according to its contents or by organizational units.
In order to ensure appraisal, in keeping with the List and Classification scheme, the records are classified depend on category to the List of archives of permanent value or to the List of records with record schedules.
Congruent to stated legal regulations the procedures of weeding and disposal, according to the List and the Scheme, coordinated with owners obligatory keeping records, eventually would provide an adequate transfer of archives to archival institution.
Keywords
State Archives of the Republic of Macedonia; archival regulation; records management
Hrčak ID:
9100
URI
Publication date:
1.4.2003.
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