Resumo
The Brazilian Senate, through its Archives and Records Management Secretariat is implementing since 1997 a records management program in its offices in order to adequately handle its documents. The program generates uniform treatment of the archival procedures, gives support to the decision making processes and allows access to the information while keeping the archives permanently up-to-date. The SARQ is using as part of its attributions the best practices archival techniques available in the market, either through the hiring of human and technological resources of quality or through specific materials for documents archiving. Concerning the archival management of electronic documents, the Brazilian Senate is endeavoring to achieve the implementation of Electronic System for Management of Archival Documents. In this way, the Brazilian Senate is acting from the creation of documents, through the intermediary phase, collection of documents and treatment of the historical document heritage.
