The Nation’s Memory Institute is a public-law institution, financed by the state budget of the Slovak Republic. The bodies of the Institute represent the Board of Directors and Supervisory Board, the tenure of their members is 6 years.
The Board of Directors ensures the activities of the ÚPN in fulfilling its tasks according to the Nation’s Memory Act and it is the statutory body of the Institute. The Board of Directors of the Nation's Memory Institute has 9 members. Five members are elected by the National Council of the Slovak Republic, two members are appointed by the President of the Slovak Republic and two by the Government of the Slovak Republic. Out of its members, the Board of Directors should have voted for the Chairman of the Board of Directors and one Vice-Chairman.
The Supervisory Board is the supreme control body of the Institute. It consists of three members. Two of them are elected by the National Council of the Slovak Republic and one is elected by the Minister of Justice.
Nowadays, the ÚPN is divided into three main organizational units.
1. Office of the Nation’s Memory Institute
The Office of the Nation’s Memory Institute ensures and coordinates the administrative, organizational and support activities of the Nation’s Memory Institute and its bodies. It pursues international cooperation, personnel agenda, media outputs, communication with journalists, legal agenda, participants and veterans of the anti-Communist resistance, financing from extra-budgetary sources, economic and financial agenda, internal administration and management of information systems. The Office of the Nation’s Memory Institute consists of the following organizational units: Secretariat of the Office of the Nation’s Memory Institute, Human Resources Unit, Media Relations Unit, Central Registry Unit, Legal Unit, Organization Unit, Department of Economics and Administration, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Participants and Veterans of the Anti-Communist Resistance.
2. Archive of the Nation’s Memory Institute
The Archive of the Nation’s Memory Institute registers, collects, manages, processes, discloses, publishes, uses, and protects archival documents and funds on the activities of the security authorities produced and maintained in the period from 18th April 1939 to 31st December 1989. It carries out acquisition activities, research in the field of archival and auxiliary historical sciences and participates in educational and exhibition activities. The organizational units of the Archive are: Secretariat of the Archive of the Nation’s Memory Institute, Department of Funds and Collections, Department of Research Room and Library, and Department of Records and Databases. The Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic granted its approval to establish the Archive on 7th August 2004. The Nation’s Memory Act stipulates, that documents relating to the State Security authorities, owned by the Nation’s Memory Institute, form the cultural heritage.
3. Research Centre of the Period of Non-Freedom
The Research Centre of the Period of Non-Freedom carries out basic and applied research on the non-freedom period, performs reconstruction of the regime’s apparatus and repressive bodies of the State during the period of non-freedom, as well as it pursues documenting the crimes of Nazism and Communism. Through publishing, educational, enlightenment, exhibition and audiovisual activities, scientific and cultural events, it presents the results of its activities to the public and thus participates in spreading the values of freedom, humanism and democracy. Its organizational units are: Secretariat of the Research Centre of the Period of Non-Freedom, Editorial Activities Unit, Department of Documentation, Department of Research and Education and Department of Audiovisual Production.