Archival Legislation and Freedom of Information Acts in Europe and North America

• Loi portant diverses mesures d'amélioration des relations entre l'administration et le public et diverses dispositions d'ordre administratif, social et fiscal.
  Language: French

Additional Resources:

• Textes normatifs et réglementaires relatifs aux archives
  Language: French

• Gesetz über die Sicherung und Nutzung von Archivgut des Bundes
  Language: German

Additional Resources:

• Archivgesetze und Verordnungen
  Language: German
  
  
• Fachbibliographie Archivrecht
  Language: German

• Freedom of Information Act 2000
  Language: English

• Data Protection Act
  Language: English

• Public Records Act
  Language: English

• Access to administrative documents
  Language: Italian

Additional Resources:

• Data base on Italian archival legislation
  Language: Italian
  
  
• Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana (ANAI)
  Language: Italian

• Lov om arkiv 4
  Language: Norwegian

• Bundesgesetz über die Archivierung
  Language: German
  Language: French, Italian

• Law on Free Access to Information
  Language: English

• Act on Protection of Classified Information and on Amendment to Certain Acts
  Language: English

Additional Resources:

• National Archives, Prague
  Language: Czech

• Act on State and Official Secrets

• Act on Public Records, Public Archives, and the Protection of Private Archive
  Language: English
  
  
• Amended by the Act CXL of 1997 on the Protection of Cultural Goods, on Museums, Public Library Provision and General Education.

• Act on the Protection of Personal Data and Public Access to Data of Public Interest
  Language: English
  Language: Hungarian Original

• Law on Access to Public Information
  Language: Polish

• Act on Protection of Classified Information
  Language: English
  Language: Polish Original

• Law Regarding the Free Access to the Information of Public Interest
  Language: English [ 29kb]

• Law on Protecting Classified Information

• National Archives Law
  Language: Romanian

• Law of the Russian Federation on Information, Informatisation and Information Protection (Extracts)
  Language: English

• Basis of the Russian Legislation on the Archival Funds of the Russian Federation and on Archives
  Language: Russian

• Regulations of Archival Funds of the Russian Federation
  Language: Russian

• Regulations of the Federal Archival Service of the Russian Federation
  Language: Russian

• Regulations on State Registration of documents of the Russian Archival Funds
  Language: Russian

• Regulations on the Registration of Archival Documents during the Privatisation of State and Municipal
  Language: Russian

• Regulations on Using Reading Rooms of State Archives of the Russian Federation
  Language: Russian

Slovakia

• Act on Free Access to Information and Amendments of Certain Acts (Freedom of Information Act)
  Language: English
  Language: Slovakian Original

• Law on Protection of Classified Information

• Collection of Archival Legislation
  Language: Slovakian

• Law on Information
  Language: English

• National Archives of Canada Act
  Language: English

• The Freedom of Information Act
  Language: English
  
  
• Freedom of Information Act Guide
  Language: English

• Public Printing and Documents
  Language: English

Additional Resources:

• Basic Laws and Authorities of the National Archives and Records Administration
  Language: English
  
  
• Information Resources on Archives and Records Administration for State and Local Governments
  Language: English