Supervisory Board

The Ephorate of the GAK ensures the fulfillment of the mission and responsibilities of the GAK and formulates their general strategy.

According to the new law (N.4610_2019) of the GAK, its powers are the following:

(a) approves and revises the strategic operating plan of the GIS and evaluates its implementation report;

b) approves the annual operational plan of the GIS, drawn up by the General Assembly,

c) approves the proposal for the annual budget submitted by the Director General (G.D.) to the competent financial services of the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs,

d) Approves the annual report drawn up by G.D. and submits it during the first two months of the following year to the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs,

(e) provide instructions on how to select, sort and record service records, records of historical interest, records of national importance, records, special archives and archival collections;

(f) provide guidance on the criteria for characterizing public or private sector archives as nationally relevant, a special historical record, a listed record, a record of particular historical or cultural interest and determines how they are managed;

g) Decides on the terms and conditions: aa) borrowing and moving archival material outside the services of the GAS, in order to display it in reports of other entities, bb) granting a license to export archival material from the country, in accordance with paragraph 4 of article 162 and cc) granting a license to sell and auction public records.

(h) decides whether or not to grant study authorizations, transcriptions, reproduction of records, found in the GPS and all kinds of other records of the country;

(i) decides on the publications and publications of the GAS,

(j) decides on the purchase of records, on the acceptance or disclaimer of inheritances, legacies, donations of records;

(k) decides on the availability of open data;

l) proposes to the Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs the issuance of a decision by which, exceptionally, special restrictions on access to archives and archival material are determined or lifted;

(m) gives an opinion on any issue concerning the archives, if it is asked by the Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs, by public sector bodies, individuals and other owners of all kinds of records,

n) gives an opinion on the establishment of new archival bodies, the public or private sector, as well as on the characterization of the special historical archives and archival collections of article 167,

o) Evaluates the work of G.D. annually. and recommends whether or not to renew his term of office,

(p) Gives opinions, in cooperation with the competent department of the relevant Ministry, on the duration of the classification of archival material as confidentiality;

q) Recommends to the Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs, the issuance of a joint decision with the competent Minister, for the determination of the terms and conditions of the interoperability of the information systems of the public sector bodies with the informational archival systems.