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M. Pandžić, Some experiences and problems... Arh. vjesn., god. 37 (1994) str. 69-78 documents in Croatia identified as needing restoration and conservation treatment from damage before the war began. The Central Laboratory for Restoration and Conservation in the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb has already restored much archival material from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but in Croatia, the total expertise amounts to only 11 experts in conservation laboratories. 5. All the actions mentioned in parts 3 and 4 (investing in microfilming, transportation, restoration and conservation, as well as other preventive actions as custody, permanent if possible, of repositories, archival buildings and other cultural institutions, fire prevention measures, acquiring the necessary equipment for laboratories and other emergency equipment or supplies) should be adopted as policy. All plans and requirements should be prepared carefully and precisely, and, in written form, distributed among the relevant institutions. At national level, one official body should be nominated as official coordinator of all actions. In Croatia it is the Institute for Preservation of Cultural Monuments at the Ministry for Education and Culture, in Zagreb. 6. Criteria for prioritising archival record groups and collections, could be as follows: a) creator of the record group (fond d'archives, Bestand), it's role and singificance in his time, in historical perspective, in a country (it's importance as part of a national heritage). b) date limits (being important for the valuation of historical events and archival documents as historical sources) and location of record, for historical context of an archival document as a historical source. c) level of archival integrity of fragmentation. d) uniqueness of archival material (in a record group or in a collection, or of some special value). e) representative value. f) other special value (international, national or regional). 7. Considering above mentioned criteria (6, a-f), archival material could be ranked (evaluated) in the following categories: a) Archival material of the highest national cultural heritage (significance), but at the same time being of international value and perhaps entered in a list under special custody of UNESCO, sometimes called 'the Memory of the World'. b) Archival material with emphasis on representative value for national archival integrity or of national cultural heritage value, for fundamental research - being of special value. c) Archival material of value for broader regions of a country, being important for a large field of scientific research or generally for the history of a nation. It's most important data are already identified in categories a. and b. 73