An eleven-person Council, elected for seven years, acts within the framework of the Institute. The Council is responsible for the following:
the full incorporation of the documents into the archival resources of the Institute of National Remembrance, and evaluation of their completeness;
assessment of criteria of preserving the documentation when they are being evaluated, sorted, stored and relinquished;
assessment of the criteria of document inspection and publication;
determination of priorities regarding motions filed by particular individuals and by institutional requests, as well as by public authorities and their subjects;
evaluation of the investigation policies;
assessment of the research programmes determining the future action plans of the state security agencies, as well as information and education of the society.
Institute of National Remembrance, ul. Towarowa 28, 00-839 Warszawa POLAND