The Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry held a board meeting

On 22 March 2012, the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus held a board meeting to discuss the issues of work organization at the expert services of institutions – sources of records acquisition for state archives, about the Department’s Thematic Plan of Research and Development for 2012 and the Final Report of R&D in 2011, about the Archives of Belarus 2006-2010 Programme.

On the first issue the department board noted that as on 01.01.2011, 7577 expert services were created in 8453 organizations – sources of records acquisition for state archives, which makes 89,6% of all registered organizations. Yet only 321 expert commissions (3,8% of the total number of the created commissions) include staff members of the state archive institutions. Presently 84,4% organizations, which have created the expert commissions, have the duly approved regulations on expert commissions.

Most expert services place the main focus on organization of records selection for permanent preservation or destruction, the discussion and approval of inventories of files with permanent or temporary (over 10 years) retention, including personnel records, file classifications, reports on destruction of records not required for preservation, instructions on record-keeping, regulations on organization’s expert commission and archive.

The department board has approved the Thematic Plan of R&D in 2012 and the Final Report on R&D in 2011.