Código de ética profissional: um estudo sobre a legislação brasileira e sua interação com o código do arquivista

Abstract

This study treats about the comparison between the Archivist Ethics Code proposed by the International Council of Archives, the brazilian Ethics Code of the Public Servant (Decree no. 1,171, from June 22, 1994) and the Information Access Law (Law no. 12.527. from November 18, 2011), analyzing them about the topics of documental collection preservation, authenticity, human rights, right to privacy and right to the information access, servant responsibility, access to the documental collection and publicity, not taking advantage of their position, morality, documental veracity, courtesy, services and delay of requests. Such direct analysis seek for a better comprehension of the ethical behavior expected of the archivist in their practice, based on the Brazilian legislation. The creation of a new ethics code exclusive for the archivist becomes a redundancy, since the brazilian citizen must guide his behavior by the jurisdictional brazilian norms in any case.