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Italy adopts OpenDocument as a National Standard
Italy has adopted The OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 23600) as a national standard. The decision was made by UNI, the Italian Organization for Standardization, which is responsible, under appointment from the Italian Government and the EU, to develop, approve and publish technical standards in all economic sectors (industry, trade and services) except for electric and electro-technical ones.
This step forward comes at a time when standards organizations in many countries are under heavy pressure from politicians at MS to undercut open standards through promoting their party's non-open specification, Ecma 372, also known as OOXML, MOOX, DOCX, and so on.