To qualify for the 2009 Awards, entries must meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Produced in the Arabia Market,
• specially created for the Arabia Market*,or
• commissioned by an Arabia based company.

All entries must have gone on air during the eligibility period of 1 Jan 2009 to 31 Dec 2009.

*For the avoidance of doubt, work previously broadcast in another territory and predominately just re-versioned for the Arabia market is NOT eligible.

Awards entries will be open to satellite, cable, broadcast television, radio stations, advertising agencies, associated new media, their agencies and production houses.

Note: All relevant permissions and copyrights are assumed to be cleared by the entrant. All entrants agree that award entries may be used at the discretion of Promax/BDA for educational and/or promotional purposes without further reference to the submitting company. Full credit will be given.

In the event that the award ceremony cannot be held on the scheduled date due to reasons beyond the organiser's control, the event will be postponed to a later date. As the postponement is due to reasons beyond the organiser's control, no refund of entry fees will be given. In the event that no award ceremony takes place, the award will be dispatched to winners by post.