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Sue There are significant differences in retention requirements from country to country and 'in country' advice is essential on a country by country basis. It will also depend on whether your local companies are locally incorporated and therefore subject to local company law. There are concerns in some countries that if records are repatriated to a different jurisdiction it may be difficult for the local authorities to conduct retrospective investigations even if immediate auditing and control requirements have been met. I'm not sure whether it still applies but, close to home, when I was responsible for RM in a large UK clearing bank, Channel Islands law prevented us from transferring records of our local branches and subsidiaries to the mainland for storage - although they did allow us to transfer them temporarily for microfilming. Peter Emmerson Director Emmerson Consulting Limited 47a Salisbury Road Harpenden Hertfordshire AL5 5AR Phone 01582 769842 Fax 01582 761740 E-mail [log in to unmask] This e-mail message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it immediately and notify Emmerson Consulting by return e-mail to the above address. Emmerson Consulting Limited is registered in England No. 3607347. Registered Office: Charter Court, Midland Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP2 5GE -----Original Message----- From: The UK Records Management mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sue Wilson Sent: 01 April 2003 14:26 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Record Retention Laws in Other Countries First of all, as it's my first post to this list, the introduction. My name is Sue Wilson and I am the Central Archivist for AT&T responsible for records across our companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This is a new role so have no yardsticks! Do any of you out there have any experience of corporate record retention in other countries? We operate a Financial Shared Service Centre in the UK so I am primarily looking at financial records and the retention rules in other countries that comply with local trading, statutory and tax laws. Where these laws allow we want to bring records to the UK but I have received conflicting advice from our staff in country and a UK accounting firm as to where we would be allowed to do this. Any information or guidance would be appreciated please. Kind Regards Sue Wilson AT&T EMEA Central Archivist [log in to unmask] DD 01527 493778 Fax 01527 493755 This message and any attachments to it contain confidential business information intended solely for the recipients. If you have received this email in error please do not forward or distribute it to anyone else, but telephone +44 (0) 1527 493778 to report the error, and then delete this message from your system.