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Zmiany w przepisach dotyczących udostępniania badaczom i publicystom akt z zasobu Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej w latach 2000–2017
Przegląd Archiwalny Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, No. 11 (2018), pages: 49–64
Publication date: 2023-04-05
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Abstract
Providing researchers and journalists with access to archival materials stored at the Institute of National Remembrance is the implementation of the freedom of speech and freedom of scientific studies and freedom to publish results thereof, as specified in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. Access to archival materials was guaranteed to researchers already in the original wording of the Act of 18 December 1998 on the Institute of National Remembrance. The archival materials collected by the Institute of National Remembrance could be used by public authorities and other institutions, organizations and individuals in order to conduct research in the necessary scope and with respect for the rights of persons who had been under surveillance by the communist security authorities and of third parties. Provisions regarding the Institute making archival holdings available to researchers and journalists caused many problems of interpretation, and were also the subject of rulings issued by the Constitutional Court. As a consequence of the Court’s ruling of October 2006, journalists were temporarily prevented from access to documents, while the ruling of May 2007 prevented access to archives for both researchers and journalists until August of this year, when the amendment to the Act came into force. The regulations currently in force, ensuring researchers and journalists almost unlimited access to the collections of the Institute of National Remembrance, were set in 2007, and then developed in 2010.
Keywords
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej • ustawa o Instytucie Pamięci Narodowej • zasób archiwalny • udostępnianie akt • publicyści • badacze • badania naukowe • wolność badań naukowych • wolność słowa • lustracja Institute of National Remembrance • Act on the Institute of National Remembrance • archival holdings • granting access to files • journalists • researchers • scientific research • freedom of research • freedom of speech • lustration
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