Under the current applicable law, The National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (Consiliul Naţional pentru Studierea Arhivelor Securităţii – CNSAS) has the following main objectives.

•  To ensure the right of individuals to access their personal file devised by the Securitate, which consists of: the study of the original file; the issuing of copies of the documents comprised in the file and other notes that refer to their person.
•  To ensure the right of access to information of public interest by Romanian citizens who live in the country or abroad, the media, political parties, nongovernmental organizations, and public institutions and authorities, concerning the status of a Securitate collaborator or agent of officials seeking or holding public office. In order to ensure the access to information of public interest, CNSAS provides on request information regarding the status of Securitate employee or collaborator of the candidates who run for public offices: president, Romanian and European Parliament, local councils.
•  To conduct ex-officio verification of the people who run for, or have been elected or nominated to, public offices, such as President of Romania, Prime Minister, member of the cabinet, member of the Romanian Parliament or the European Parliament, member of central and local administration, etc. Those who run or have been elected or nominated to one of these public offices, apart from those who by December 22, 1989 were under 16 years of age, are requested to fill out an official form regarding their association or non-association with the Securitate structures as agents or collaborators.
•  To communicate upon the request of the entitled person, the identity of the Securitate employees and collaborators who contributed with information to the completion of the respective person’s files. The names of the persons who were part of the Securitate structures or collaborated with them are published in the Official Bulletin of Romania, Part III.
•  To develop educational programs and activities; organize conferences, seminars and lectures, as well as exhibitions and screening of documentaries on the communist dictatorship in Romania and the role of the Securitate in supporting it; publish, primarily with the CNSAS Publishing House (Editura CNSAS), but also with other relevant publishing houses in Romania, the results of the scientific research it carries out in monographs, edited volumes of studies and collections of documents, as well as in the CNSAS periodicals (Caietele CNSAS).

•  To put at the disposal of Romanian and foreign accredited researchers documents and information relevant to their research topics.

•  To ensure the continuation of the transfer process for the relevant archival documents produced by the former Securitate to the CNSAS archive, in accordance with applicable law, from holders of such documents, such as the Romanian Intelligence Service (Serviciul Român de Informaţii – SRI), the Foreign Intelligence Service of Romania (Serviciul de Informaţii Externe – SIE), the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Administration and Internal Affairs, the Romanian National Archives, etc.

• To contribute with expertise and documentary evidence in public policies aimed at resolving the issues regarding the remedies for the victims of the communist regime, including rehabilitation, restitution of certain goods seized by the Securitate and compensations under a system of special laws, as follows:

           - Law no. 221/2009 on political convictions and similar administrative measures, issued between 6 March 1945 and 22 December 1989,

           - Decree-Law no. 118/1990 on the granting of rights to persons persecuted for political reasons by the dictatorship established with effect from 6 March 1945, as well as to those deported abroad or held as prisoners,

            - Law no. 10/2001 on the legal status of immovable property taken over abusively between 6 March 1945 and 22 December 1989,

          - GEO no. 214/1999 on the granting of ‘anti-communist resistance fighter’ title to persons convicted of crimes committed for political reasons, as well as to persons subject of abusive administrative measures for political reasons,

            - GEO no. 103/2000 regarding the decoration “Commemorative Cross of the Anti-Communist Resistance”. To these normative acts was added the Cooperation Protocol concluded between the C.N.S.A.S. and the Ministry of Public Finance regarding the supply of documents necessary for solving some cases of restoration of property right.

Starting with 2020, the National Council for the Study of Security Archives makes available to the petitioners certified copies, for a fee, of the documents identified in the CNSAS archive, in order to obtain a monetary compensation according to Law 232/2020 on granting rights to persons persecuted for political reasons by the dictatorship established starting with March 6, 1945, as well as those deported abroad or held prisoners.