This document describes CADDY, an electronic dossier
interchange and archiving format for crop protection
products applications.
The first version was called CADDY Format Specification
1.0 and was the result of discussions between the European
Commission, representatives of European Member States and
members of the European Crop Protection Association about
common dossier interchange format on electronic media.
The enhanced version
CADDY
Format Specification 1.1 from September 23, 1997 incl.
Addendum Draft February 24, 1998 was created from CADDY
Format Specification 1.0 by adding minor adjustments that
will make it usable in the United States and Canada.
The CADDY Format Specification 2.0 was released on March
19, 2002 and was enhanced by adding support for CADDY
controlled files, CADDY hyperlinks and other features that
were agreed upon by the Joint CADDY Steering Group. The
current document
CADDY
Format Specification 2.0 dated June 19, 2002 contains
additional clarifications and corrections listed in the
change history.
Any application that is able to read a
CADDY Format Specification 2.0 compliant dossier has to
be able to read dossiers compliant to former versions of the
CADDY Format Specification. This also applies to the new
Version 2.0 of the CADDY Retrieval Software that is able to
read both CADDY 1.1 and 2.0 Format Specification conform
dossiers.
The initial
CADDY-xml Format Specification version 1.0.1 was
released on July 19th, 2005. CADDY-xml is based on
the CADDY 2.0 format, but introduces some important
differences by providing the general information, a table of
contents, confidential and non-confidential documents,
report information and hyperlink information in an XML
framework.
The TIFF-files are replaced by PDF/A versions of the
documents, which can be either image-based or text-based.
Additionally, a CADDY-xml based dossier can
be instantly viewed with a common web-browser
supported by Acrobat Reader. This standard is
flexible to accommodate different dossier structures
such as OECD, EU or any other standard.
You can download the most recent version in the
right column.