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21 January 1997
The terms of reference of the mission
i. assess the situation of the main archives in towns to which travel is reasonably possible, including Sarajevo, Mostar, Travnik, Bihac, Doboj, Banja Luka and Foca covering: the application of national archival legislation, holdings, staffing levels, the general state of preservation of the holdings, and the condition of buildings and services (decisions on which towns to visit will be taken in close co-operation with the UNESCO office in Sarajevo);
ii. prepare, in close co-operation with the central archival administration of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a comprehensive list of all public record creating agencies which existed before 1991, indicating their current status, and based on this, plan for a comprehensive census of record holdings in these agencies;
iii. organise a meeting of the Directors of the central archives, to be held in presence of the expert in order to assist in the re-establishment of professional exchanges at national level and to plan the general census of agency record holdings.