This is the conclusion of a meeting between Danish Science Minister Ms. Charlotte Sahl-Madsen and the Danish Parliament's spokesperson for IT on 30 March 2011.
Public authorities will remain committed to receiving documents from citizens and businesses in all popular formats (including Open Document Format [ODF] and Open Office XML [OOXML]). Likewise, the public bodies will continue to send documents to citizens and businesses in PDF/A-1 format.
With the decision not to make OOXML and ODF document formats mandatory, the Science Minister followed the recommendations of the Expert Committee on Open Standards which argued that these standards are not mature enough for the time being. Subsequently, the Expert Committee on Open Standards will be closed.
Prospective standards will be monitored by the Danish IT and Telecom Agency, which will regularly assess the maturity of the standards, involving relevant experts as deemed necessary. The Minister of Science and IT rapporteurs will regularly review the maturity of the standards based on the Agency's assessment, as well as the potential of cloud computing in this area; the importance of such developments for further work will be given particular focus.
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Quelle/Source: epractice, 11.05.2011
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