The purpose of this interinstitutional framework contract is to provide to the participating EU institutions, bodies and agencies professional services and supplies which are necessary for the long term preservation of audiovisual productions according to professional standards, their digitisation, their inventory and their distribution to interested parties.

Audio, video and multimedia laboratory services:

— transfer/duplication of existing programmes onto digital media;

— remastering and digitisation of existing programmes including restoration and simple editing;

— inventory of audiovisual documents;

— supply of sundry consumables (labels, covers, boxes for all forms of media, envelopes in various formats and any other consumables and recording media used in day-to-day management of audio and video archives);

— related services: printing of covers and identification labels, packaging and distribution.