On August 5, 2025, Josée Kirps, Director of the National Archives of Luxembourg, and Cindy Bauwens, Director of ALIA, signed an agreement on the sorting table for ALIA documents and archives.
This step is part of the law of August 17, 2018, on archiving, which requires all ministries and state administrations to have a sorting table. The sorting table is an essential document management tool, designed to list all documents and data generated or received in the course of an organization’s missions. It specifies the length of time these documents must be kept for administrative, legal, or practical purposes. At the end of this period, the documents are either disposed of or transferred to the Luxembourg National Archives if they are of historical, scientific, cultural, economic, or societal value to the country.
Through this process, ALIA contributes to the country’s collective memory. Certain documents produced today, whether they be decisions, opinions on draft legislation, European contributions, or even elements related to the evolution of ALIA itself (such as its logo or its missions), could one day shed light for researchers, historians, and citizens interested in the development of media regulation in Luxembourg.
