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