APS Awards 2025 - Regulations


ARTICLE 1 - AIM OF THE AWARDS
RX France is organizing the APS Awards to highlight the most innovative new products presented at the APS show, which will be held from 07 to 09 October 2025 at Paris Porte de Versailles.

ARTICLE 2 - ADMITTED CANDIDATES
Only APS exhibitors are allowed to present products/services at the Awards.

ARTICLE 3 – NOMENCLATURE
The products/services presented must correspond to the exhibition nomenclature. An expert jury will evaluate the products/services that will compete for the APS 2025 Awards.

ARTICLE 4 – AWARDS
The APS 2025 Awards will be presenting a number of prizes: - Start-up - Gold Award - Silver Award - Bronze Award - Special mention subject to jury decision Each innovation presented by the exhibitor will be allocated to one of the categories by the organizer. In addition to these awards, the Jury reserves the right to award special mentions. The prizes will be presented in the form of a trophy and a kakemono for the winning exhibitors.

ARTICLE 5 – JUDGING CRITERIA
New this year: The APS Awards are evolving and doubling your chances of winning thanks to evaluation by two distinct juries: Jury on October 7: A jury made up of decision-makers Jury on October 8: A jury made up of installers and integrators In awarding the prizes, the Jury will take the following criteria into account: - product innovation, - improvements, advantages of use for the end customer, - the product's technical features, - services associated with the product (after-sales service, maintenance, servicing, etc.). - product ergonomics/comfort of use - product aesthetics/style, - compliance with standards and certifications, - markets covered by the product, - the quality of the application file.

ARTICLE 6 – CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION
To be eligible for the Awards, products/services must have appeared on the French market no earlier than January 1, 2024, except in special cases as determined by the members of the Jury. Products/services must be exhibited on the stand of the exhibitor responsible for their registration.

ARTICLE 7 - REGISTRATION FORMALITIES
In order to be considered for the Awards, candidates must provide RX France with the following information by the specified deadline: - The registration form sent on request - Documents to be attached to the file requested in this form - Payment of the amount of the application fee Any exhibitor may present as many products/services as he wishes at the Awards. He must compile as many entry forms as the number of products/services presented.

ARTICLE 8 – SINCERITY OF THE INFORMATION
Candidates commit to provide only accurate and truthful information to the judging panel and, in particular, to avoid any omission or inaccuracy that could lead to erroneous judgement. In the event of proven irregularity, the judging panel reserves the right to withdraw a prize already awarded or to withdraw the product/service from the competition, without the exhibitor being able to claim reimbursement of the application fee. Candidates may only present products, solutions or systems of their own manufacture or design or of which they are agents or dealers. The participants guarantee to the organizer that the products, solutions or systems do not infringe the rights of third parties or that they have obtained from the holders of intellectual property rights on the products, solutions or systems that they present, all the rights and/or authorizations necessary for their presentation at the Awards. The organizer accepts no liability in this respect.

ARTICLE 9 – PRESELECTION
An initial preselection will be made among the files submitted, which will eliminate applications that do not meet the necessary criteria (product marketed before the date mentioned in Article 6, product outside the scope of the Awards, incomplete file, etc.). The preselection will be validated by all the members of the judging panel. The application fees are not reimbursed for products examined and not retained by the preselection.

ARTICLE 10 – JUDGING PANEL  
For each product/service, a complete file is constituted when it includes all the information necessary to enlighten the judging panel’s judgement: the participation file completed by the exhibitor, high-definition photos/visuals, documentation containing the technical characteristics of the product, any additional documents. The products/services are judged by a judging panel made up of experts from the profession, users from the risk prevention and management, safety and security and firefighting sectors. The two groups (Occupational and Industrial Risks / Security and Firefighting) are carefully constituted to represent the main categories of professionals concerned by the products they judge. The members of the judging panel judge the products/services on the basis of the information contained in the application file. They obtain additional information, if necessary, via the organiser from the candidates, who commit to provide it to them. Each member of the judging panel gives a series of marks to each product according to the criteria set out in Article 5. Thus, each product receives several marks.