ODF has been today named a national standard in Brazil. Additionally there is a federal law to make it mandatory in public administrations. It is
already mandatory at least at the state of Paraná, south corner with Paraguay and Argentinian state of Misiones (where it is also mandatory).
The following English report gets into details:
On the afternoon of last Tuesday (08/04), the final translated version of the ISO/IEC 26300 was approved by members of the ABNT’s committee responsible for that activity.
According to the Brazilian laws, a National Standard needs to be written on our native language (Brazilian Portuguese) and this is why we need to translate and approve the translated text of any International Standard that is adopted as a Brazilian Standard (called here NBR). ABNT is the Brazilian National Body (NB) and handles all standardization efforts in Brazil.

