UPOTREBA ARHIVSKOG GRADIVA S OSJETLJIVIM PODACIMA U REPUBLICI SLOVENIJI I NEKIM DRŽAVAMA EVROPSKE UNIJE
USE OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL WITH SENSITIVE DATA IN THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA AND SOME STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: The archives are part of the national heritage. They hold the nation’s history. Even in the 16th century had to have special permission to access archival material because the written heritage was obviously more appreciated. In the second half of the 20th century most of the country abandoned that. Today, access to the archives is right, not privilege. The Council of Europe has adopted the position that the country has no democracy, if all its inhabitants not have the right to get objectively familiar with its history. Also, countries which respect and promote the openness of the archives are on other grounds required to protect personal data and the various secrets. The area is governed by the laws and by-laws on access to information of public importance, the protection of personal and confidential data and so on. An interesting situation is in the former east European countries, where operated services, which in various ways rounded up data on citizens. With the collapse of its political system resulted making many specialized archives, who took material from former organizations and secret services. In this article, we showed how the Republic of Slovenia and some other countries of the European Union regulated access to archival material, such as periods of availability, types of documents, to which access is restricted and when the material will be available. Data were obtained from sites of national archives and the laws of individual states, and several professional publications.

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