T he Sitges conference was organised by Eureka Audiovisuel and Copeam, in association with FIAT, represented by Branko Bubenik and Dominique Saintville, and FIAF, held at Sitges. The regional collaboration within Greater Europe was the angle chosen to broach the subject of preserving and using archives. A regional setting seems to provide a more realistic and operational framework than the international approach generally used by FIAT today. R egional boundaries are not clear-cut.
Many countries straddle the border between two regions.
For example, Greece is part of both the Balkan and the Mediterranean heritage. These structures handle aid programmes for the development of television, which can be allocated to archiving. The economic situations of these regions are quite disparate, and this disparity is also encountered in the level of archive development. W ith the advent of digital technology in the archival systems, the gap between the most advanced archives and the most ill-equipped archives has become wider. Average-level archives take all measures to preserve and use filed documents, within the limits of the financial resources allocated.