Final Chess Masters Bilbao 2008

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PRESS REGULATIONS

ACCREDITATION RULES AND FUNCTIONING
for journalists and the media during the Chess Tournament:
Bilbao Grand Slam Final Masters 2008

1.- Introduction

These accreditation and functioning rules are aimed to provide journalists from the various media with the optimum conditions to perform their professional work combining their informative and logistic needs with the requirements that organizing an event such as the Bilbao Grand Slam Final Masters 2008 involves.

2.- Accreditations

Mass media companies will be able to accredit journalists to represent them during the Tournament.

Accreditations will give the right to use the Press Centre, to information, acts and official receptions. In addition, the Organization will bear, according to the terms and conditions set, the accommodation (four-star hotels) and subsistence (lunch and dinner) expenses of journalists from the mass media companies selected. This selection will take place based on the available resources, the informative interest for the Organization and the commitment to divulge the Tournament by the relevant media company.

3.-Accreditations Request

3.1. Applications will be submitted by e-mail pmolina@emeservicios.com and will include the following information:

Name of the communication medium.
Type of communication medium.
Journalists first and second names and position.
Estimation of the Tournament’s media coverage by the relevant medium.
The use or not of video and TV cameras.
Company’s address.
Telephone and fax.
E-mail address.

3.2. Accreditation applications will be addressed to the Tournament’s Management from the July 15th to August 15th. The Organization will inform about the acceptance of the accreditations requested by e-mail and whether the Organization will bear the accommodation and subsistence expenses and under what conditions.

4.- Accreditations Collection

The accreditations which will be given individually to the journalists of the various media on presentation of an identification will be collected at the Press Centre from August 31st to through September 13th 2008.

5.- Documentation and technical support for the accredited journalist´s work

The Press Centre will provide accredited journalists with the documentation and technical support described below in order to facilitate their working requirements:

Information on current events.
Possibility to participate in all press conferences.
Help with the arrangement of interviews to the participants and organizers of the Tournament.
Additional information materials.
Daily press releases.
Telephone, fax and Internet access.
Possibility to work with a PC.

6. Obligations of Accredited Journalists

Accredited journalists are obliged to:

Adhere to the procedures and norms set for the celebration of the Tournament.
Carry the accreditation badge on a visible place at all times.
Take pictures and video recordings inside the playing space glass case only during the first 5 minutes after the start of the games.
Once the first 5 minutes mentioned above have elapsed the recording of the games with camera sets with focus light as well as photographs taken with flash from the outside of the glass case will not be allowed.

7. The Tournament’s Press Centre

The Press Centre, with address at Plaza Nueva, nº 10- 2º Izda, 48005 Bilbao, will be opened everyday from 11:00 hours up to one hour after the end of the last game.