This rule was written by Wolfgang Wahlster. It is applied at Amsterdam, Budapest, Brighton and Berlin.

Free registration and other concessions (free accomodation, travel) is extremely restrictive. 

The procedures are:

• Free attendance (with proceedings) should be only given to the Conference Officers (6 tickets), the ECCAI Board (6 tickets) and the invited speakers.These officials should also get free banquet tickets as a "thank you from ECCAI".
• No other concessions are allowed. In particular, everybody has to pay the travel expenses and accomodation from his own budget . The ECCAI Board members will charge their travel expenses to the general account for ECCAI Board meetings.
• Each PC member gets a free copy of the proceedings. Please note that for PC members who cannot make it to the conference, the proceedings should be shipped to their home address. The PC members cannot get free registration or other concessions. Since the PC members get a free copy, we can reduce the registration fee for them by subtracting the costs of a proceedings volume. If you feel, that this procedure generates too much overhead, we could give them an extra copy of the proceedings: That's what we did in Budapest for the PC members who had paid the full amount.
• It is extremely important, that all workshop attendees (including so-called "invited speakers" at workshops) must register at the workshop and the conference. For workshop organizers only the workshop fee is waived. For tutorial speakers there is no free registration and no free attendance.

Version dated 5 May 2002