After the unification of Italy in 1861, all state archives came under the jurisdiction of the Home Office. The Ministry for Preservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage was founded by the archival law on 29 January, 1975, and within it a special Central Office for Archival Heritage was established. The office is responsible for the organisation of work in the office, it protects and surveys state historical archives, and supervises private archives. The Central State Archives in Rome, the Center for Reproduction, Binding and Restoration in Rome, 95 state archives, 40 sections of state archives, and 18 state supervisions are dependant on the Central Office. The main tasks of the archival administration are the preservation of records and the supervision of public and private archives. Therefore, the archival cummunity in Italy is divided into the institutions for the preservation of records (Central State Archives, state archives and sections of state archives) and the institutions for supervision (the so-called archival supervisions). There are also the National Council for Natural and Cultural Heritage, Regional Conferences, Regional Commutes, and the Council of Institutes, which are types of consulting agencies for archival science. 17 state archives organise education at the so-called schools of archival science, paleography and diplomatics.