Civil & Administrative

#2012-479Decree No. 2012-479 on the Interministerial Delegate for the Archives of France and the Interministerial Committee for the Archives of France

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

AI-generated summary for informational purposes only. Not legal advice. See the original source for the authoritative text.

🇬🇧 English

This decree establishes an interministerial delegate to oversee the national archives policy in France. The delegate’s duties include creating strategic frameworks for modernizing and managing archives. It also forms a committee led by this delegate to coordinate actions across multiple government departments for projects involving archive construction, digitization, and online publication of archives.

AI-generated summary. May contain errors. Refer to official sources for legal decisions.

Key Changes

  • Establishment of an interministerial delegate for archives oversight.
  • Creation of a committee to coordinate archive-related actions across departments.
  • Implementation of strategic frameworks for archive modernization and management.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

The Interministerial Delegate for Archives of France must develop and submit to the Prime Minister a common strategic framework for modernizing archives and managing performance in this domain.

Interministerial Delegate for Archives of France (General Director of Heritage)
operational
high

The Interministerial Delegate must propose to the Prime Minister actions that can be shared among multiple state administrations regarding archive building construction/renovation, native digital public data archiving, archive digitization, and online publication of digital or digitized archives, including governance modalities.

Interministerial Delegate for Archives of France
operational
high

Concerned ministers must consult the Interministerial Delegate for their opinion on all projects from their administrations or supervised organisms meeting specified characteristics (cost threshold set by Prime Minister order) regarding archive building construction/renovation, digital archiving, or archive digitization/online publication.

All concerned government ministers and their administrations
operational
high

The Interministerial Delegate must provide their opinion on submitted projects within two months of receiving the project presentation file, with opinion deemed favorable if no response is given within this deadline.

Interministerial Delegate for Archives of France
operational
medium

The Interministerial Delegate may request all necessary information from concerned administrations to render opinion on projects; such requests suspend the two-month deadline until all requested documents are received.

All concerned government administrations
operational

Affected Parties

French national archivesVarious government departments

Tags

government,policy,archives