So start planning now for your national art competition, and please remember to return all entry forms to the Secretariat by 2 August, 1999. Artists must be either prisoners or ex-prisoners. Each national ministry may submit as many as their top three entries in each category to the international competition. It's recommended that ministries select their entries through a national competition. The advertised cash prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners at the international level, as well as the national ministry that submitted them.
National ministries are responsible for any prizes they offer at the national level.
The actual artwork must be hand-carried by the national ministry to the PFI Convocation in Bulgaria for display and judging. The national ministry is also responsible for carrying the entry home, if it needs to be returned. The judges reserve the right to judge the artwork in a category other than the one in which it was entered, if they feel it would be more appropriate or more advantageous to the artist. The judges' decisions are final, and they reserve the right not to award all three prizes if a category doesn't attract enough outstanding entries. By entering the contest, artists grant PFI the right to use the work in any way it wishes including exhibition, publication and promotion, without further compensation.