Organisation :
The agency SPORTING MANAGEMENT organizes the 8th MARATHON OF THE DUNES, from December 26, 2007 to January 01, 2008 in the town of BENI ABBES – city of BECHAR (Algeria).
This locality is situated at 1.250 km in the West South of Algiers.

Definition of the competition:
The 8th Marathon of the Dunes is a race out in the country of about 42 km that takes place in three stages and in free pace on a distance of 14 km for each of the stages on three and a half days of competition.

General conditions:
The 8th Marathon of the Dunes will take place in conformity with the present regulation that can be consulted with the seat of the organization. All competitors commit to submit to this regulation by the only fact of their enrolment and clear the responsibility of the promoters for all incidents or accidents capable to occur because of the non respect of this regulation.

Admission of the participants:
- To be more than 18 years old.
- Bachelor or non bachelor.
- A medical certificate attesting the competitor's faculty (prolonged and intense effort in altitude) should be completed and returned to the organization with the bulletin of enrolment.
 
Categories of Ages:
The categories of ages are classified for the two genders as follows:

Classification:
The individual ordering for every stage will be established with the realized times. The individual general arrangement will be established on the set of the three stages while adding the times of every stage. For winner will be declared the athlete achieved the best time of all stages.
In case of equality, the winner will be the athlete who will have gotten the best orderings in the biggest number of stages. This system will be valid for equality at any other place of the test.
An athlete not having participated in one the stages or having quit will be relegated and won't represent on any ordering.

Marks of identification by the organisation :
At the time of the administrative and technical audits preceding the departure of the test, the organization will provide to every concurrent:
A number (port on the chest) and will also provide three numbers made of paper for each of the three stages. The marks of identification provided by the promoters will remain affixed inevitably on every competitor during all the period of the marathon.
The numbers won't be given in the day of the race.

Reserved site for the individual sponsorship:
Outside of the marks of identification reserved by the organization for every competitor, the spaces remaining available will be able to be used by the competitor for the individual sponsorship, example: tee shirt (without chest), shorts, sock, caps and back-pack.
However, the organization reserves the right to bar an excessive individual sponsorship or in direct competition with the conventional advertising partners in the setting of the 8th Marathon of the Dunes or for reasons which the organization doesn't have to justify.

Timetables of the runnings:
The stages will take place in morning with departure at 8.30.
The three stages will take place around Béni Abbés, on gritty lands (dunes), flexible land, and very little road.

Water points:
The organization is in charge of provision in water for the colons foreseen to the Km 5 and the Km 10 with tables containing mineral water, dates and oranges.

Beaconing of the Kms:
The participants should follow the beaconing of the stages foreseen by the organization. The course of every stage will be indicated by beacons, pennants and kilometer panels.

Stations of controls:
Stations of controls are distributed along the course of every stage and constitute sites of obligatory pointing for the competitors.

Timing:
Every competitor's times will be timed in hours, minutes and seconds by official accept.

Medical help:
A medical team will be put in place by the organization during the whole length of the marathon. . It will medically assist the competitors in the stations appearing on the notebook of road of every stage. It is authorized to put out of the race all competitors unfit to continue the test putting in danger him or the others.
Ambulances will follow the athletes during the three stages.
In the camp of the participants there will be a permanently presence of a medical team with physicians and nurses as well as a room of cares and massage for the athletes.

Security:
The security of the competitors will be assured 24h/24h by Police's services, State police, Health and Civil Protection, during the whole period of the marathon.

Insurance:
The promoter subscribed for the length of the marathon civil responsibility insurance with regard to the third party and competitors, what implies that the damages undergone by these last are generated by the promoter's mistake.

Equipments:
It is advisable the competitors to have professional shoes especially made for the sand, hard land and the road. For the clothing, it will be good that the competitors are endowed with warm clothes for the evenings.
The competitors have to foresee a sleeping bag and a pocket-size flash light.

Rights for Photo, Television, and Video Coverage:
The promoter reserves all exclusive rights of use of the pictures of the 8th Marathon of the Dunes.
All competitors give up expressly taking advantage of the right to picture during the event, as he gives up all recourse in opposition to the promoter and his approved partners for use of his pictures. All audio-visual professionals must make their accreditation by the promoter in accordance with the regulation in force.

Rewards - Prizes:
According to the specified categories, the laureates and of other athletes classified to the level of the general arrangement (the two genders) will receive some bonuses in dinars, the rewards and the offered gifts either by the promoter or sponsors.
Every participant in the 8th Marathon of the Dunes will receive a diploma to remembrance.

Visas for the participants:
For the administrative formalities, to know the steps for the obtaining of the visas, SPORTING MANAGEMENT will be in charge to inform officially the consular services in the Embassies of Algeria in the participant's countries enlisted for the 8th Marathon of the Dunes.
Nevertheless, the competitor must address to the organization, his card of information at least two months before the event.
The organization addresses to all participants an attestation of involvement, indispensable document for the visa services.

Organization of the travel from Europe:
In collaboration with the airline companies and the delegates, and the Travel agencies, the EURL SPORTING MANAGEMENT will grant to the participants, journalists, accompanists, coming from Europe, preferential discount prices for the 8th Marathon of the Dunes.
Flights charters will be foreseen from some cities when the number of the participants is big enough.

Financial conditions:
The price for the right of entry to the 8th Marathon of the Dunes will be fixed subsequently after negotiation with the airline companies.
The other expenses: visa, travel insurance, etc. are in charge of the participant.

The price includes:

The participants officially enlisted before the beginning of the 8th Marathon of the Dunes, must pay to the organization 60% of the expenses to the delegate designated by SPORTING MANAGEMENT.

Forfeit Annulment of engagement:
The annulments of booking demand, the declarations of forfeit and demands of repayment must be expressed by registered letter in order to avoid all contestation.
10% of the totality of the engagement price will be kept by the organization in case of disclaimer intervening during the month of enrollment.
25% of the totality of the engagement price will be kept by the organization in case of disclaimer intervening fifteen days before the test.
Past this last delay, no demand of repayment will be accepted.
The charter ticket is not repayable for the participant not having been able to done the displacement with the delegation of the organization.

Lodging:
The camp of the sportsmen will be implanted in the locality of Béni Abbés, situated in 200 km of Bechar. The participants will be lodged in bivouac with all necessary comforts-bathroom-shower.

Food:
The organization foresees an improved sporty menu conceived by a physician of sport.
Other traditional meals are foreseen in the program in a palm grove in the region of Taghit.
The meals will be served in the refectory meadows of the bivouac.

Internal transportation:
The organization will put at the disposal of the participants of the buses for the internal transportation according to the program for the sporty and tourist activities.

Tourist visits:
In collaboration with the office of the Tourism of Béni Abbés, several tourist, very interesting visits, are programmed on the occasion of the 8th Marathon of the Dunes with guides chosen for this occasion.

Bank Exchange:
A bank will get settled at the scene of the camp of the participants to be in charge of the operations of changes or the withdrawals of money by banking card system.

Expo village:
An expo village will be open during the whole period of the 8th Marathon of the Dunes for the sale of souvenir articles, mineral water, fruits and other products.

Cultural and artistic entertainment:
Every evening, on the place of lodging of the participants, under anticipated khaimates on the occasion of the marathon, organization of a program rich in entertainment with troops and orchestras of the region.

New Year’s Eve:
This year, the organization foresees a traditional menu with an exceptional entertainment.

Types of communication:
In Béni Abbés where will take place the 8th Marathon of the Dunes, there are all types of telephonic communication in direction of all cities of the world to the stationary or the portable phones.

Deadline of the inscriptions:
The deadline of the enrolments is fixed to November 30, 2007.