• 01 Participation in all categories of the competition is open to all date palm farmers, date producers, manufacturers, researchers and scientists.

• 02All applicants for the competition categories must be thoroughly informed of the terms and conditions of participation and the evaluation criteria of the selected category, in order to meet the requirements and comply with the required standards, submit the required documents, and agree to all general conditions. The participation terms and conditions of each category and the competition in general are mandatory to be met by all participants, and this will be taken as a tacit approval by the applicants.

• 03 Participants can either upload the participation files and form (by category) through the festival's website http://sudanfestival.com or hand-deliver the participation form with the samples (by category) at the Sudanese date Palm society’s head office by September 25th, 2020, where the evaluation committee will exclude non-compliant entries that does not meet all conditions and criteria required in the competition categories.

• 04The Competition Evaluation Committee may make a field visit to the farm or factory, so those who apply in these categories must commit to providing all facilities for field visits in coordination with the Secretariat of the Committee.

• 05Winners of any category of the competition are entitled to apply for any other categories in the following year, and are not eligible to run for the same category that they won until completing three years after the first winning date.

• 06A single participant is not entitled to compete for more than two prizes, including members of his or her family.

• 07The participant is not entitled to claim the return of samples submitted in the competitions.

• 08Winners are entitled to use the festival logo for the course they won and not the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation logo on their advertising and marketing materials.

• 09The Sudanese date competition is supervised by the juries and the organizing committee of the festival.

• 10A scientific committee consisting of five experts specialized in the date palm cultivation and date production sector under the supervision of the organizing committee will arbitrate all the files and documents submitted to compete for the categories of the Sudanese date competition, after giving them confidential numbers according to a mechanism approved by the committee based on the criteria adopted by the juries and published by each category.

• 11The number of applicants in any category must be at least three participants and above to be able to proceed with category.

• 12The juries have the right to withhold any of the awards in case all the participations are not meeting the required standards and qualifications set. The juries decisions are final and not subject to appeal.

  13Members of the organizing committee, the juries or their first-class relatives are not eligible to participate in any of the competition categories.

  14Winners will be awarded commemorative trophy and financial rewards (prize money) during a ceremony at the 4th Sudan International Date Palm Festival in Khartoum, November 23rd to 27th, 2020.

1 - The number of applicants in any category must be at least three participants and above to be able to proceed with each category.

2 - The juries have the right to withhold any of the awards in case all the participations are not meeting the required standards and qualifications set of achieving a minimum of 80% or above from the criteria.

3 - It is forbidden for the members of the organizing committee of the festival or their families to participate in any of the categories of the competition.