Appendix 6

Order of the Chief of Staff, Secretary General

 of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia

#1492, December 09, 2019

FUNCTIONS OF THE FIRST DIVISION

1. The Division, for the implementation of the tasks assigned to it within the scope of its powers, shall perform the following functions:

1) shall provide and control the protection of state and official secrets and secret paper work management in the National Assembly and in the Staff;

2) shall provide the secrecy regime in the National Assembly;

3) shall implement work regarding the organization of secret and top secret official document circulation, registration, delivery maintenance, and archiving of secret documents;

4) shall control the implementation of the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Armenia regarding the secrecy regime, shall organize and conduct secret paperwork;

5) together with the heads of bodies of the National Assembly and the sub-divisions of the Staff shall prepare identification list of offices of the Deputies and employees who are eligible for permission for correlation with secret information;

6) by the recommendation of the Chief of the Staff shall provide the comprehensive security for the closed sittings and deliberations of the National Assembly, preventing the presence of unauthorized persons and possible leakage of secret information;

7) shall implement reproduction of secret materials debated at closed sittings and deliberations of the National Assembly, and their transfer to participants who are eligible for permission for correlation with these;

8) shall implement  declassification and the transfer to the state archive or the destruction of secret or highly secret documents with an expired storage period;

9) shall implement formulation and registration of permission to the connection with secret information, of Deputies and relevant officials and instruction of the persons who have received permission, and shall organize precautionary work regarding protection of secret regime and increase their vigilance;

10) in cooperation with the Human Resources Management Department shall present to the Chief of the Staff proposals and recommendations regarding those staff units whose connection to state and official secrets is inevitable. In special cases, shall prevent the appointment to the above mentioned offices, and the continuation of occupying of new office of certain persons;

11) shall control the impeccable fulfillment of the requirements of the instruction of persons performing secret work, shall exclude and prevent cases of loss, abduction,  forgery, distortion of documents, and information leakage;

12) by the recommendation of the Chief of the Staff, shall implement an official investigation of facts of promulgation of secret information, the loss of documents containing secret information, and other violations of the secret regime;

13) within the limits of its powers, shall develop draft legal acts;

14) shall submit to the Chief of the Office an annual report regarding the work done of providing the secrecy regime;

15) by the recommendation of the Chief of the Staff shall implement other functions providing the secrecy regime;

16) shall implement other functions established by law.