Technical standards and requirements
This website is designed to adhere to the international standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium to assure a smooth browsing experience accessible to all our users, amongst others the most important are:
You can test the HTML 5 maturity of your browser on this HTML 5 test page. As a general recommendation, you should use the most recent version of your browser. The minimum browser versions should be as followed:
- Google Chrome 58
- Apple Safari 10
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 or 11 (limited support)**
- Mozilla Firefox 53
- Microsoft Edge 15
- Opera 45
- YaBrowser 17
**Known compatibility issues with Facebook Livestream
Preferred web browser settings
For best user experience, make sure you have to the following settings enabled in your browser:
- Enable cookies
- Enable JavaScript
- Minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768
No additional web browser plugins, such as Flash, are required. Further, no browser pop-ups will interfere when accessing this website, so you can safely keep them blocked.
Mobile devices
This website is designed to be mobile responsive, which means it will resize and adjust to your screen when you work on a mobile device, such as Apple iOS or Google Android. So whether you're viewing on a monitor, tablet or smartphone, you will enjoy a rich user experience.
Other standards
Adobe Reader (or any other PDF viewer) is required to view or download documents and publications in PDF format. You can download the latest version from the Adobe website.
This website contains a number of multilingual sections; therefore for languages other than English, a two- or three-letter code is automatically included in the URL address according to a standardized language code list ISO 639-2.
We also use the international public telecommunication numbering plan standard to format the phone members displayed on the website, so that they can directly be dialed from a smartphone.