The National Archives of Iceland has commissioned a legal opinion on issues concerning the archiving and document management of the parties liable to deliver. At the same time, the Archives have issued recommendations to the parties liable to deliver.
Legal opinion
Here you can find the legal opinions that the National Archives have commissioned.
Opinion on the obligation of liquidation boards to hand over to the National Archives of Iceland.
Date: 26 January 2014.
Author: Kristín Benediktsdóttir, Dean of the Faculty of Law, HÍ.
Opinion on the screening of job applications that have been received by the administration on the occasion of an advertisement for a public job.
Date: 26 January 2014.
Author: Kristín Benediktsdóttir, Dean of the Faculty of Law, HÍ.
Legal opinion on the delivery obligation of Landsbankinn hf. to the National Archives of Iceland.
Date: 28 January 2014.
Author: Kristín Benediktsdóttir, Dean of the Faculty of Law, HÍ.
Opinion on the responsibility of directors of municipal institutions and companies for record management and their record keeping.
Date: 24 February 2015.
Author: Kristín Benediktsdóttir, Dean of the Faculty of Law, HÍ
Opinion generation. Which documents are considered part of the archive of the party liable for delivery in the sense of Act no. 77/2014 on public archives?
Date: 25 April 2016.
Authors: Kristín Benediktsdóttir, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Iceland, and Trausti Fannar Valsson, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Iceland.
An opinion on the filtering of data generated in employee interviews.
Date: 30 September 2017.
Author: Kristín Benediktsdóttir, Dean of the Faculty of Law, HÍ.
Opinion on the deletion of data due to interpretation orders at the Communications Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Date: 30 September 2017.
Author: Kristín Benediktsdóttir, Dean of the Faculty of Law, HÍ.
Opinion generation. Does the Financial Supervisory Authority have to hand over to the National Archives of Iceland documents relating to the adjudication committee in insurance matters and the adjudication committee on transactions with financial companies?
Date: 12 December 2019.
Author: Kristín Benediktsdóttir, Dean of the Faculty of Law, HÍ.
Opinion on the deletion of tapes containing data from the old banks' computer systems, which the Financial Supervisory Authority took over in 2008.
Date: 13 December 2019.
Author: Kristín Benediktsdóttir, Dean of the Faculty of Law, HÍ.
Recommendations
The National Archives of Iceland has issued the following recommendations:
Recommendation of the national archivist of the day. July 18, 2018 on document storage and document management of government entities subject to delivery following the new law on personal protection and sharing of personal information.
Recommendation of the national archivist of the day. August 16, 2018 on document storage and document management of municipalities that are required to be handed over to the National Archives following the new law on personal protection and sharing of personal information.
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