A board meeting of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus

On 1 April 2022, the Board of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus held a meeting to discuss the work of state archival institutions with archival documents of restricted access.

The Board drew the attention of the state archives to the necessity of verification of restrictive signatures on the covers of the files with restricted documents when accepting them for permanent preservation.

The Board noted that the source organizations do not always indicate the restrictive stamps on the transferred documents. It was emphasized that the regulations governing the procedure for handling documents containing restricted official information provide for this work to be carried out directly within the organizations.

The Board also pointed to the necessity of timely removal of restrictive signatures from documents with expired security classification by the source organizations.