According to Article 13 of Act No. 77/2014 on Public Archives, the role of public archives is to supervise archiving and records management in the public sector. It states that public archives shall “monitor the implementation of this Act, of any Regulation issued by the Minister on the basis thereof, or of rules laid down pursuant to Article 8, by entities subject to an obligation of transfer; such entities must grant access to their premises for the purposes of inspections carried out as part of the monitoring of public archives".

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