This document contains a description of staff responsibilities and instructions and of workflows and procedures as to the registration, selection, acquisition and intake/ingest processes of audiovisual materials to be submitted to the Digital Archive by (generally) non-broadcast data producers. The acquisitions may concern both analogue materials and digital files and carriers. Workflows and procedures include digitization of the carriers before ingest, in case the acquisition concerns analogue materials. In the document instructions are listed for the use of the donation contract template, the selection criteria, the metadata templates and the preferred file formats.