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Remembrance in Time
Despite the legal regulation is different in the above countries, the principles of the
relating measures – harmonizing with the European privacy principles – are quite similar
from several aspects. Beyond the informational compensation and creation of the
possibilities to introspect to the files, the legislatures intended to protect the personal data
of the concerned: the data related to their private life, health-condition or sexual life.
Consequently, there is no “file statute” in any of the above countries. The files are not
fully published. The abuse with the personal data is punished with exclusion of the
researches, or even imprisonment.
Due to the above regulation none of the institutions make the documents fully
accessible. Even the Czech and the Slovakian Institute, considered to be the most liberal,
limits their publications to the operative and agent registers. It doesn’t publish files or
documents, containing mass of personal data. In the aspect of the scientific research
possibilities it seems to be right, that the “ones, starting later, going on faster”. In the
archives, which were established later, they take less attention on the protection of the
personal data of the concerned people, however, the legal sanctions are also included in
the regulations.
In general it can be stated, that the researchers face more administrative obstacles at
the BStU, than at the Archive of Prague, for example, or even at the Hungarian Historical
Archive.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CSEH 2010
Cseh Gergı Bendegúz: State Security Panorama from Central-Eastern Europe. Publicity
of the State Security documents in the former Socialist Countries. Betekintı, 1. sz.
http://www.betekinto.hu/2010_1_cseh (the latest download: 8th May, 2012.).
THE EUROPEAN…, 2009
The „European Network of Official Authorities in Charge of the Secret-Police Files”. A
Reader on their Legal Foundations, Structures and Activities. Berlin, BStU,
www.bstu.bund.de (the latest download: the 8th of May, 2012.).
TRÓCSÁNYI 2007
Trócsányi Sára: Revolution in the Archives. The legal aspect of the informational
compensation. Budapest, Holnap Kiadó.