 No document produced or received by the public authorities may be destroyed without prior authorization from the National Archivist or his delegates.This supervision of the public archives is assigned to the section “Archive supervision, reporting and co-ordination of archive collection and selection” of the State Archives, supervising the central services of the federal administration, and to the archivists of the State Archives repositories in the Provinces, supervising the external services of the federal administrations, the courts and tribunals of the judiciary and the regional and local administrations.The State Archives thus watches over the due conservation of archive documents produced and managed by Belgian public authorities.