Field of activity
Military Archives tasks are the following:
- collecting, selecting, keeping and issuing archival material created during the work of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia and the Serbian Armed Forces, as well as the material of all militaries and military formations created throughout the history from the region of Serbia and former SFRY;
- keeps the prescribed record for archival material;
- receives requests and demands of legal and physical entities, and provides data to competent bodies to solve them, based on the documents and records;
- engagement in expert qualification of personnel working on archival jobs in commands, units, institutions and archives;
- participation in drafting regulations and criteria on protection and use of archival material in the Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Armed Forces;
- plans take-over of archival material from commands, units and institutions;
- controlling the protection of archival material and provides expert support to commands, units, institutions and archives through consultations;
- approving and bringing decisions on destroying worthless registration material with expired file retention period for all MoD and SAF commands, units and institutions;
- working on expert processing of archival material located in the Military Archives;
- issuing prescribed scientific-informative means for arranged archival material;
- organizing the work of researchers in using archival material in the Military Archives;
- recording, copying, scanning and digitalizing archival material documents in order to protect the originals and facilitate the work of researchers;
- participation in congresses, symposiums and consultations in the country and abroad, for the sake of exchanging experience from the field of archival work, organization of seminars and consultations for people working on archival jobs in commands, units, institutions and archives, for the sake of improving archival service organization and work;
- monitors the development of archival service in the country and in the world, in order to use experience for improving archival service within the MoD and SAF;