How to apply for a QualityCoast Award

Once registered, applicants can apply for a QualityCoast Award.
For this, the following steps must be completed:

a) Download the QualityCoast Award 2010 Application Form at www.qualitycoast.net. Make sure you check this website for the latest version

b) Please complete this Application Form electronically. For each of the 20 criteria you will see a number of items to be completed. Normally it is not necessary to complete all these items, because some items may not apply to you or there may not be sufficient information for some of them. But the QualityCoast assessment team may ask you to add information if insufficient information is provided for certain criteria.
All this information will be used in the assessment and evaluation by the Jury.
And please be aware that part of this information will be presented in the QualityCoast public website.

c) Please select 10 high quality digital pictures (2000 x 3000 pixels, free of copyright for us) that well illustrate the criteria. We need this selection for the brochure and the website. Please do not provide more than ten. We also need the digital logo of the applicant (300 dpi).

d) Existing documents that you consider useful for the assessment are welcome. Please check whether the QualityCoast Team can read the language of the annexes.

e) Please send the completed Application form, pictures (digital format on a CD/DVD or USB pen drive) and annexes by post to:

The QualityCoast Jury
Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC)
P.O. Box 11232
NL-2301 EE Leiden, The Netherlands

or by e-mail to: , marked QualityCoast Application.

f) Payment of the Application fee

After acceptance of the Application by EUCC, the non-reimbursable application fee, which amount depends on the size of the applicant (see table below), should be paid to:

EUCC
ING Arnhem, the Netherlands
IBAN NL 85 INGB 0001 025914
Swift/BIC Code INGBNL2A

This fee is to be paid once the application for the QualityCoast Award is presented. Please note that the assessment process will only start after receipt of the payment.
The fee will cover the cost of the assessment and review process by the QualityCoast Jury and serve as a contribution to common international publicity. Each applicant receiving the QualityCoast Award will have a dedicated webpage in the www.qualitycoast.info website and a page in the QualityCoast Brochure.

A coherent group of applicants (e.g. islands within the same archipelago, or towns within the same island) can decide to combine their information in a common page or pages in the QualityCoast brochure. In this case they will be discounted on the basis of the pages required.