Dear Maël and Basil,
Die 10. 01. 14 et hora 12:20:05 Maël Brunet scripsit:
Strange, from a cursory review it seems that they support the use of the latest version of ODF but only the old binary Microsoft Office formats, not OOXML. Would you be able to confirm this?
That is indeed what is says. It explicitly states that the MS Office formats have to be compatible with the XP/2003 version or *older*.
It also states that the ODF version should be compatible with ODF 1.2.
Of the top of my head, that might not be a bad move — newer versions of MS Office support ODF, so from those users you can just use that.
Interestingly § 5 states that as long as the documents are internally circulated, these can be in any format as long as all parties involved agree on it.
§ 6 simply states that the status quo in EU is that a consensus is still needed between member states and that most used formats are:
- ODF (as the candidate for *the* standard format in EU) - PDF - MS Office XP/2003
Hope this helps.
cheers, Matija