General Conditions for Participation
In the Sixth Jordanian Dates Competition - 2024
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01Participation in the competition categories is open to all date palm farmers, date producers, manufacturers, researchers, scientists, and innovators in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan without exception, provided that the farmers are owners, tenants, or have long-term guarantee contracts.
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02All applicants for the competition categories must carefully review the participation conditions and evaluation criteria for each category to ensure they meet the requirements and comply with the standards, and provide supporting documents. All general conditions and participation requirements for each category are mandatory for all participants and implicitly agreed upon by the applicants. Participants must send their application files and participation forms (according to the category) via email to the festival (info@jordanfestivals.com) no later than October 2024. They must also submit the printed participation form along with the samples (according to the category) by hand at the headquarters of the "Jordanian Dates Association," with a date for sample submission to be determined later. The evaluation committee will exclude entries that do not meet all the required conditions and criteria for each competition category.
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03Some competition categories require the evaluation committee to conduct a field visit to the farm or factory. Therefore, applicants in these categories must facilitate the field visits in coordination with the secretariat of the committee at the Jordanian Dates Association.
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04Winners of any competition categories are eligible to apply for other categories in the following year, but they are not eligible to apply for the same category they won until three full years have passed since their win.
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05A single participant is not allowed to compete for more than two awards, including family members.
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06Participants are not entitled to request the return of samples submitted in the competitions.
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07Winners have the right to use the festival logo for the cycle they won (and not the Khalifa Award logo) on their promotional and marketing materials, correspondence, and publications.
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08The Jordanian Dates Competition is supervised by the scientific committee and the organizing committee of the festival.
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09The judging committee has the right to withhold any of the awards if the entries do not meet the required quality standards or fail to meet the set evaluation criteria. The decisions of the judging committee are final and not subject to appeal.
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10Members of the organizing committee, the scientific committee, or their first-degree relatives are not allowed to participate in any competition categories.
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11Winners will be awarded commemorative shields and financial rewards (valued at one thousand dollars) during a ceremony held at the Sixth International Jordanian Dates Festival in Amman 2024.
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12Participation forms for the competition must be submitted for all categories no later than August 2024.
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