Terms and Conditions

1. General

The competition is open to anyone or any business based within the European Union, with the exception of employees of the Welsh Assembly Government, McCullough Moore, StrataMatrix, Telesgop, Howel Food Consultancy, their families or any other person connected with the competition.

2. Your entry form

• All questions should be completed in full unless
otherwise stated.

• Any illegible or defaced forms will be rejected.

• Additional information as indicated in the entry form may be submitted in support of an application by the closing date.

• Do NOT send food products with your entry or at any other time unless requested.

• Entry forms (and submitted product requested in respect of judging) will not be returned to the applicant.

• Information submitted will be treated confidentially by the award organisers and/or their respective groups of companies. Non financial information may be used in promotions and in publicity materials as agreed on the declaration. Financial information detailed will be treated in the strictest confidence and not used for promotional purposes.

• You are responsible for entering your product(s) into the correct category(ies). From detail given in the entry form the judging organiser may sub-divide the categories according to turnover.

• In all aspects of category selection the judging organiser’s
word is final, so your product may be moved to a more
appropriate category.

• It may be necessary to clarify or gather missing information
from the returned forms. In these cases entries may be
followed up with an interview, conducted confidentially over
the telephone by a trained researcher.

• Additional copies of the entry form can be obtained by:
- Calling: 0800 085 3663
- online at: www.truetaste.tv
- or email: entries@truetaste.tv
- Entries submitted by post must be signed and sent to:
StrataMatrix, StrataMatrix Cyf, Plas Gogerddan,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3EB
• The closing date for entries is 1 June 2009

3. Taste Award Categories

• You may enter a maximum of TWO products over the
product categories A – G.

• You may NOT enter the same product in more than one
category. If you need further clarification please contact the helpline 0800 085 3663.

• To count as an individual entry, the product must be sold as a single item: this includes banded or multi-packs. You may NOT enter a range of products as a single entry: each item in the range must be entered individually.

• All product entries must be products available commercially to the general public and made to the same recipe and standard.

• All product categories will be judged on taste by a panel of independent judges at the judging events during June and July 2009.

• You may be required to answer a short business declaration if you are a finalist.

• Details for submitting your products for taste testing will be sent after receipt of your application form. Only those
products listed on your form can be submitted for judging.

• It is your responsibility to ensure that all foodstuffs are
transported and delivered in a condition fit and safe for
consumption by the judges. Any entries arriving in a damaged or unsafe condition will be disqualified.

• While every attempt will be made to judge any entries arriving after the allotted time this will be at the discretion of the judging organiser.

4. Special Categories

• Categories H – J will be awarded based upon performance in
the Taste Award categories. There will be a supplementary
form for category I which will be sent to all finalists.

5. People and Places Award Categories

• There is no limit to the amount of entries in the People and
Places Award Categories, providing they are different entries.

• People and Places entries will be paper judged according
to the answers in the entry form and supplementary forms
that entrants will be asked to complete.

• Short listed entries may be subject to telephone interviews,
mystery shopper and mystery diner judging.

6. Judging and Prizes

• Judges may not be contacted by entrants in any way or by
any means during the competition. Any attempt to do so will
result in your application being rejected.

• The judges’ decision will be final.

• There will be no individual feedback to entrants during the
judging process but feedback from the judging panel will be
supplied after the winners are notified AFTER the awards
dinner on 19 November.

• Finalists will be notified at the address given on the
application form.

• Prize winners will be announced on 19 November at the
awards ceremony.

• Prize winners will be awarded a trophy and certificate on
19 November.

• If a prize winner does not attend the awards ceremony,
the prize will be forwarded by post to the address on the
application form.

• There will be no cash prizes and no alternative to the trophy
and the certificate.

7. Promotion and Publicity

• Use of the True Taste/Gwir Flas awards logo will only be
permitted on prize-winning products or services as named on
the application form and under legal contract to the Welsh
Assembly Government.

• Guidance notes are available on the use of the logo.

• Award organisers are not liable for any losses incurred to
entrants or their businesses as a result of misinformation
supplied by the award organisers or events beyond their
reasonable control and hereby excludes all liability save for
that which it cannot lawfully exclude or limit.

• Finalists are not permitted to bring products neither promote
their products or services in any way at the awards ceremony
on 19 November.

• Prize winners must be willing to take part in any publicity or
promotion requested by the award organisers. If you are
a winner you will be required to supply a media statement.

• Category sponsors will not be allowed to enter a product into
the category that they are sponsoring.

8. And finally...
• By entering the competition, entrants are deemed to
have accepted and agreed to be bound by these terms
and conditions.