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XXXIX IChO / IChO / Regulations
§ 1 - Aims of the competition
Organization of IChO
§ 2 - Organization and invitation
(1) The IChO is organized every year, as a rule at the beginning of July in one of the participating countries by the Education Ministry or another appropriate institution of the organizing country (hereafter referred to as the organizer).
(2) The organizer is obliged to invite all countries participating in the previous IChO competition. The official invitation to participate in the forthcoming IChO should be sent to countries by the November preceding the competition. The invited countries must confirm their participation in the IChO according to requirements of the organizer.
(3) Moreover, other countries may apply for the participation in IChO but the organizer has the right to invite the countries only on agreement with the organizers of two forthcoming IChOs. Incoming countries must send observers to two consecutive Olympiads before its pupils can participate in IChO (see also § 3, section 5).
§ 3 - Delegations
(2) The competitors must not be university students. They can only be students of secondary schools that are not specialized in chemistry and, if they are already graduated before May 1st in the year of the competition, the organizer must be informed about the month and year of their graduation. Moreover, they must be under the age of 20 at the 1st of July in the year of the competition. The competitors must be passport holders of the country they represent or they had to take part in the secondary school educational system of this country for more than one academic year. All members of a delegation must provide themselves with medical insurance for the journey to/from the organizing country and the stay in the country.
(3) The mentors act as members of the International Jury (see § 6) and one of them is designated as the head of delegation. The scientific observer may be present at the Jury Meeting but he/she cannot take part in the discussion.
must guarantee the fulfilment of those conditions given in section 2 of this paragraph,
must be capable of translating the text of competition tasks from English into the mother tongue of their students and be able to judge the set of tasks and correct the work of the students.
have the right to enter a protest which should be addressed to the Chair of the International Jury and, when necessary, ask for solving the problem at the next meeting of the International Jury.
(5) Incoming countries that are invited by the organizer, and intend to take part in future IChOs, may send one scientific observer.
§ 4 - Obligations of the Organizer
transportation from/to an airport/station decided by the host country on the day of arrival and departure,
the organization of the competition following the regulation,
accident insurance for all participants in connection with the organized programme,
arrangement for the observance of the safety regulations,
the medals, certificates and prizes, which are presented at the official closing ceremony
a report on the competition in the form of a printed report or a CD ROM to be distributed not later than six months after the competition.
§ 5 " Financing
(3) All other costs being in connection with the organized programme, including the costs of accommodation for all competitors and members of the International Jury, are covered by the organizer.
(4) The organizers of the next two consecutive Olympiads may send two observers to the current IChO with their expenses covered by the host as mentioned in the preceding section 3.
Institutions of IChO
§ 6 - International Jury
§ 7 " Responsibilities of the International Jury
discusses in advance the competition tasks presented by the organizer, their solutions and the marking guidelines, gives comments and decides in case of changes,3
determines the winners and decides on prizes and documents for the competitors,
takes decisions on excluding of a participant or a whole team from the competition (see also § 11, section 7),
keep the marking and results secret until proclaimed by the International Jury.
§ 8 - Steering Committee
(2) Members of the Committee are elected by the International Jury. They are representatives from various geographical areas (3 from Europe, 1 from Americas, 1 from Asia and 1 from Pacific Rim ), to serve a two year term. Members are elected for no more than two consecutive terms. Moreover, 1 " 3 experts may be selected by the Steering Com?mittee for their particular expertise for periods of one year.
(3) There are four ex-officio members of the Steering Committee:
chair of the current IChO,
chair of the immediate past IChO,
representatives of the following two IChOs,
calls and chairs the business meetings of the International Jury dealing with general problems of future International Chemistry Olympiads,
has the right to call a special meeting of the International Jury when necessary for some exceptional reasons.
provides organizational oversight for the International Chemistry Olympiad,
§ 9 - International Information Center
There is an International Information Center of the International Chemistry Olympiads gathering and providing (when necessary) all the documentation of the IChOs from the very beginning of the Olympiad to the present. The seat of the Office is in Bratislava, Slovakia .
§ 10 - Preparation for the IChO competition
(1) By the January of the proceeding competition the organizer distributes to all participating countries a set of preparatory tasks written in English. The preparatory tasks must be devised so that students can get a good idea of the type and difficulty of the competition tasks, including safety aspects (see §12 and Appendix "B?). According to Appendix "C" topics of group 3 must be covered in the preparatory problems. SI units must be used throughout the preparatory tasks.
(3) he organizer cannot give theoretical problems of level 3 (Appendix C) from more than 3 fields and a minimum of 6 tasks should be presented in the set of preparatory problems from each field. Subjects assigned to level 3 can be classified as level 2 if sufficient background is included in the formulation of the problem (e. g. formulas, graphs, structures, equations).
(4) The organizer cannot set an experimental competition task with an experimental technique of level 3 (Appendix D) without mentioning it at least in one of experimental preparatory tasks.
§ 11 - Organization of the IChO Competition
(5) When pocket calculators are not provided by the organizer, only non-programmable pocket calculators may be used in the competition.
(7) Breaking of any rules given in the preceding paragraphs (§ 3. section 2, § 10, section 4, § 11, sections 4, 5, and 6) has as its consequence excluding from the whole or a part of the competition.
§ 12 - Safety
(4) The organizer provides a list of chemicals from which the chemicals used in practical preparatory and competition tasks are drawn. The list of chemicals must include information of the maximum amounts of materials needed or in the case of solutions their maximum concentrations. Any hazardous materials on the list must be accompanied by detailed instructions for safe handling. The list must be provided together with the preparatory tasks (see § 10).
(5) Detailed recommendations involving students" safety and the handling and disposal of chemicals can be found in Appendices A 1, A 2, and B.
Appendix A 2: Safety Rules and Recommendations for the Host Country of the IChO.
B 2: R-Ratings and S-Provisions: Nature of special risks (R) and safety advice (S);
§ 13 - Competition Tasks
(4) The total length of the theoretical or experimental tasks, answer sheets including should be kept to a minimum and not exceed 25,000 characters. The number of characters must be stated at the end of each exam paper. SI units must be used throughout the competition tasks.
No part of the grade can subjectively be evaluated by the staff.
In evaluating the quantitative tasks the master values must not be based on average results of the competitors.
§ 14 - Correcting and Marking
(2) The competition tasks are corrected independently by the authors and by the mentors. Consequential marking should be used so that students are not punished twice for the same error. Both corrections are then compared, however, the authors present their evaluation first. After a discussion the final score for each participant is reached and agreed by both sides. The organizer retains the original marked manuscripts.
(4) In order to eliminate any doubts about possible mistakes in the processing of the results the organizer must provide the mentors with a list of their students' total results before the closing awards' ceremony.
§ 15 - Results and Prizes
(2) The number of gold medals awarded is in the range of 8% to 12%, silver 18% to 22%, and bronze medals 28% to 32% of the total number of competitors. The exact number of medals is decided on the basis of an anonymous review of the results.
(5) An honorable mention is awarded to competitors who do not receive a medal, but gain full marks for at least one problem.
§ 16 - Final Regulations
(2) This version of regulations has been approved by the International Jury in Gyeongsan ( Korea ) in July 2006 and is issued to replace the former one approved in Athens (Greece ) in 2003.
(3) The regulations are valid from September 1st, 2006. Changes in them can only be made by the International Jury and require a qualified majority (two third of the votes with regard to total number of participating countries).
APPENDIX NEW SYLLABUS C