Format migration amendments and continuing conditions

ARC.03.02officeUnion-wide competence

Purpose and competence

Format migration amendments and continuing conditions is maintained for Format migration. Its scope follows the office’s mandate: Migrate records into maintainable formats without losing meaning or evidential provenance.

A conversion drops a legally significant condition from older records

Record specification

Record identifier: ARC.03.02/R3
Responsible custodian: Format migration
Source evidence: source schema; conversion tests; validation results
Decision output: Archive format-migration finding
Publication status: Draft record specification / no signed decision
Review route: Union Ombudsman / Union Court of Justice

Custodian and access

Format migration assessment lead → · Public records access procedure

A change that may reopen the archive format-migration finding

A conversion drops a legally significant condition from older records; preserve and correct the semantic mapping.

Instrument affected: Archive format-migration finding
Receiving custodian: Format migration assessment lead

Access to this record

Format migration assessment lead / contact · Public records procedure · Common custody and accessible-format rules