Flag Useage
Album des Pavillons 2000, page AN 1.1, shows the flag with arms — the drawing is very much like the one on FOTW. As far as I am aware, the flag without the arms is (was?) used in Andorra itself quite more often than the version with arms. In any case, I guess it is not wrong to have the flag without arms, and that could at least be mentioned in a note [in Album des Pavillons 2000]. Regarding the useage:
Smith 1980 indicates the version without arms as , and that with arms as . It also marks both versions as de facto () —i.e. that there is no legal document adopting the flag (not as unofficial)— and the version with arms as variation () i.e. that there are several flags of the same basic design that are used concurrently.
FOTW marks version with arms as , though the version without arms is a variation in both uses, I guess.
Album des Pavillons 2000 marks the version with arms as . Is there any army to be using this flag?
Željko Heimer, 31 January 2001
[Last] weekend I was in Andorra. (...) I searched for more flags: civil defense, police etc. but none has flags (only logos). Only the communications service [post office?] has a flag that is hoisted in their headquarters, blue and bears the white logo in it. (...) Out of the seven districts or parroquies [i.e. parishes] I was in three, but unluckily in one of them headquarters [district council?] were closed because it was Sunday. In other two they have no knowledge of having a flag. At the headquaters of the main parroquia, Andorra la Vella, they gave me several details about the arms of the parroquia, including Pantone [shade]s, and also information about national symbols, but they never heard about a flag for the parroquia.
I tried to visit the National Historic Archive, but was unable to as it is necessary to call days in advance (...). If anyone is interested, specially [to find out more] about the misterious vertical yellow-red flag, contact:
Arxiu Historic Nacional
Edifici Prada Casadet
Prada Casadet, 8-12
Andorra la Vella
Tel. 861889 / Fax 868645
Jaume Ollé, 18 March 2001