Archival activity

Archival activity

Services

  1. CROSS-BORDER FREEDOM TO PROVIDE SERVICES: If you already have a registered establishment in another Europan Union Member State/EEA Country, you can provide services on occasional or temporary basis without the requirement of registration to the competent authority
  • submmision of e-notification about occasional/temporary provision of services without an establishment.

      2. REQUIREMENTS OF ESTABLISHMENT

  • Request form for issuing a decision on the existence of conditions required for the establishment of specialized archives and private archives
  • Request form for issuing a decision on delimitation of competencies between specialized archives and archives performing archival service as public institutions
  • Justifiability and feasibility study which needs to determine the existence of minimal conditions for the work of the archive (source, type and quantity of materials to be stored in the archive and take-up dynamics, assessment of the required storage, working and user space and related equipment, assessment of number and structure of required professional, administrative and auxiliary staff, assessment of funds needed for the establishment of the archive and regular work upon establishment, source of funds needed to ensure the necessary premises, equipment and staff, as well as permanent source of funds for the work of the archive, ascertain that the conditions required for establishing the archive have been met, as well as conditions of accommodation, equipment, protection and processing of archival material, number and structure of professional staff)

Fee

No fee

e-access to this service activity

  • The form should be filled out and signed personally
  • The form should be sent by e-mail to the competent procedural body, together with all the necessary documents – all in scaned PDF or jpg format
  • If the documents are sent by e-mail, there is no obligation to send them by regular mail or in a physical way
  • The approval / decision regarding the carrying out of an activity may, upon request, be obtained from the competent procedural body by e-mail. You will also receive it afterwards by regular mail. The end deadline is 30 days of a duly filed request.
  • After obtaining the approval, you can start carrying out the service activity.

REQUEST FORM FOR ISSUING A DECISION ON THE EXISTENCE OF CONDITIONS REQUIRED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIALISED ARCHIVES AND PRIVATE ARCHIVES

REQUEST FORM FOR ISSUING A DECISION ON DELIMITATION OF COMPETENCIES BETWEEN SPECIALISED ARCHIVES AND ARCHIVES PERFORMING ARCHIVAL SERVICE AS PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

E-mail to which all the documentation should be sent: pisarnica@min-kulture.hr

Titled: e-request – Point of Single Contact

Info: on your registered e-mail you will receive a notifiction about the submission of the request and a certificate of obtaining authorisation

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Competent body and regulations

Ministry of Culture

Directorate for Archives, Libraries and Museums

Runjaninova 2, 10 000 Zagreb

pisarnica@min-kulture.hr

Law on Archival Material and Archives (Official Gazette number 61/18)

Ordinance on the Conditions of accommodation, equipment, protection and processing of archival material, Number and Structure of Professional Archive Staff (Official Gazette number 65/04)

Approval to carry out the activity

Decision on the existence of conditions required for the establishment of specialised archives and private archives.

Decision on delimitation of competencies between specialised archives and archives performing archival service as public institutions

Legal remedy and appeal

No appeal is allowed against the decision of the Ministry of Culture, but an administrative dispute may be instigated by lawsuit before a competent local Administrative Court (in Zagreb, Osijek, Rijeka and Split) in 30 days. Upon receiving the complaint the Administrative Court shall determine the regularity of the complaint and whether the conditions required for an administrative dispute have been met, the Administrative court shall forward the complaint to the defendant and other interested parties for their response. The Administrative Court  will assess freely the evidence and determine the facts. The complainant is obliged to indicate in the complaint all of the facts on which his claim is based, suggest the evidence and respond to all the claims and evidence suggested by the other parties.

All of the information derives from the regulation within the remit of the competent body

Time of update: 31.07.2019.

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