RULES OF THE II HALAL TECHNICAL-SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS - YEAR 2025

1. PREAMBLE

These standards regulate the conditions for the execution of the Halal Technical-Scientific Congress – CTecHalal, an event organized by the International Halal Academy that will be held as one of the activities of the Global Halal Brazil – Business Forum. Its objective is to disseminate technical and scientific works developed in the various areas of interest of the Halal segment and the experience acquired by academics and professionals from the national and international market. The Congress is held in partnership with FAMBRAS HALAL Certificações and CCAB – Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.

2. STRUCTURE OF CtecHalal

The structure of CtecHalal is composed of a Scientific Organizing Committee,

appointed by the General Director of the International Halal Academy, composed of the General Secretary of the International Halal Academy, who will also act as coordinator, and experts in various areas of interest. The work sessions of this committee will be held with a calendar and work plan approved by the General Director. The activities of CtecHalal will be developed during the Global Halal Brazil – Business Forum through lectures, round tables with debates, mini-courses and presentation of technical-scientific papers that address topics related to the areas of interest of Halal and professional experience; with dissemination and programming approved by the Organizing Scientific Committee and budget approved by the General Director. The objective of CtecHalal is to collect technical-scientific papers for presentation at the Congress that will take place during the same period as the Global Halal Brazil – Business Forum, held in Brazil, and will be published in the Congress proceedings.

3. SUBMISSION OF WORKS

3.1. Submitted works must address the modalities covered in the following areas of interest of Halal:

• Management and Planning;

• Agribusiness;

• Food and Beverages;

• Drugs;

• Cosmetics;

• Fashion and Clothing;

• Banking and finance;

• Logistics - Storage and distribution;

• Technology;

• Tourism;

• Hospitality and Services;

• Environment and Sanitation;

• Quality Controls and Management;

• Audit;

• Analysis Laboratories;

• Religious Principles;

• Media and Leisure.

3.2. The work to be submitted must have all its authors identified with the title, institution or organization to which they belong, location of the city, state and country and e-mail for contact, according to the editable model available on the homepage of the International Halal Academy (www.academyhalal.com). The work must be submitted to CtecHalal by the first author identified at the beginning of the list of authors. Of the authors of the work, only this author will receive correspondence from the conference organization and will present the work.

3.2.1. Each paper may have a maximum of five authors.

3.2.2. Authors may be students of technical, undergraduate or postgraduate courses linked to national or international educational institutions; or professionals in the market.

3.3. All authors of the work must be registered and sign up for Global Halal Brasil – Business Forum.

3.4. The works will be submitted to CtecHalal by the date defined in these regulations. A maximum of 3 (three) technical and/or scientific papers may be submitted by the first author. Written works must be written in Portuguese and have a maximum of 5 (five) A4 pages.

3.5. Works must be submitted in .doc format, without blocking and editable, identified with the title in capital letters, containing a maximum of 15 words, including monosyllables, disyllables, trisyllables and polysyllables.

3.6. Submission of papers for selection and presentation at CtecHalal and publication in the conference proceedings implies irrevocable acceptance of these rules by their authors. The International Halal Academy is not responsible for any undue indication of co-authors.

4. ACCEPTANCE OF WORKS

4.1. Only papers that fully comply with these rules will be accepted for selection. Literature reviews will not be accepted. It is recommended that submitted papers include results that have already been achieved. Papers that are yet to be developed and/or with results not yet obtained may be accepted.

4.2. Submitted works will be evaluated for acceptance by the Organizing Scientific Committee, which will observe the originality of the approach and compliance with the writing and text formatting rules set out in this standard.

4.3. The rules for writing and formatting the text must be strictly followed, especially regarding scientific notations and relevant technical standards. If there are irremediable failures in the observance of the writing and formatting standards, the work will not be accepted for evaluation.

4.4. The originality of the approach will be verified through appropriate bibliographic research, with the aid of specific software, to test documents in order to verify the existence of improper copies of other published documents. A limit of 3% is allowed for the indication, through specific bibliographic research software, of possible existence of improper copies of published documents in the work submitted for evaluation by CtecHalal.

4.5. For the purposes of originality of the approach, a document is considered to have improper copies when it adapts or transcribes excerpts from other published documents without complying with the standard for citing bibliographic references. If there are copies of excerpts from other published documents without the proper citation of bibliographic references, the work will not be accepted for evaluation and selection for presentation at CtecHalal, as well as publication in the conference proceedings.

4.6. The NOT ACCEPTED opinion will be duly justified and communicated to the first author, via electronic message, with no appeals being allowed by the authors of the work against the decision issued by the Organizing Scientific Committee.

5. SELECTION OF WORKS

5.1. ACCEPTED papers will be selected for presentation during CTecHalal, parallel to the Global Halal Brazil – Business Forum.

5.2. The opinions of the evaluators of the Organizing Scientific Committee for the presented works will be “APPROVED” or “REJECTED”.

5.2.1. The evaluators will observe, among other criteria: the suitability of the object of the work to the theme of the modality; the clarity of the presentation of the theme; the contextualization of the problem situation; the coherence between the objectives; the justification and social relevance of the study; the scientific robustness of the hypotheses presented; the coherence and suitability of the methodology adopted with what was intended in the study and whether it is adequately detailed to be reproduced; whether the results are adequately described and in accordance with what was collected and reported in the methodology; whether the use of graphs and tables facilitates the presentation of the theme; whether there is redundancy of information about the results of the study; whether the discussion is coherent and current, dialoguing with the proposed objectives and the results obtained.

5.3. Papers that require corrections will be forwarded to the first author. After corrections, the papers must be forwarded to the Organizing Scientific Committee by the first author within 5 (five) calendar days, counting from the first day after notification of correction. Corrected papers, if forwarded after the deadline, will be REJECTED.

5.4. Changes to the title of papers will only be made if determined by the Organizing Scientific Committee. Requests to change titles and authors will not be accepted before the evaluation and selection of the papers.

5.5. The REJECTED opinion will be duly justified and communicated to the author, via electronic message, and no appeals against the decision will be allowed.

6. PRESENTATION OF WORKS BY PHYSICAL OR DIGITAL BANNER

6.1. All approved works will be presented at CtecHalal through a physical or digital banner at the discretion of the Congress Organizing Committee.

6.2. The first author of the work approved for presentation via banner must submit the electronic file of the same in editable .ppt or .pptx format, according to the model adopted by the CtecHalal Organizing Committee available on the International Halal Academy homepage, within 5 (five) calendar days, counting from the day after notification. It is forbidden to exclude the logos of the event's sponsors or supporters from the CtecHalal banner model.

6.3. The banner file of the work to be sent to CtecHalal must be named with the title of the work in capital letters. No subsequent changes are permitted. The presentation of the selected work via banner will be made by the author provided that he/she proves that he/she has registered for the Global Halal Brasil – Business Forum. The presentation by third parties who are not authors of the selected work is prohibited.

6.4. The location, date and time for the banner presentation will be included in the CtecHalal schedule, which will be announced in advance by the event's Organizing Committee, which, at the discretion of this organization, may be a live or recorded online presentation.

6.5. The banners will be displayed from the first day of the Global Halal Brazil – Business Forum, in the places designated for the presentation, before the scheduled opening time and cannot be removed before the end of CtecHalal; and in the case of an event held virtually, the display conditions will be defined by the event organizer.

6.6. The author presenting the banner must remain at the presentation location during the entire period scheduled for the presentation, awaiting the Evaluation Committee for the banner presentation. At the end of the presentation, the author who presented the banner must sign the attendance list – physically or virtually – when, at the discretion of the Evaluation Committee, he/she may be released from the presentation session, remaining at the event venue until the end of CtecHalal. Signing the attendance list is mandatory for the issuance of the banner presentation certificate.

6.7. The Event Organizing Committee and the International Halal Academy will not cover any travel or accommodation expenses for the authors of articles selected for presentation via banner on CTecHalal to participate in the event.

6.8. Authors of works displayed (in a face-to-face event) on banners may only remove them after the end of CtecHalal. The International Halal Academy and the congress organization will not send banners to authors. Banners not removed at the end of the congress will be sent for disposal or donated to interested institutions.

6.9. Authors who wish to present their work on a banner must submit it in accordance with the model available on the International Halal Academy website and with the following specifications: maximum usable area of 1.08 m²; maximum dimensions of 0.9 m wide by 1.20 m high; non-serif text font (Arial, Calibri, etc.) in a size that allows it to be read from a distance of at least 2.0 m (minimum size of 28 pt), in order to facilitate reading by participants; present the title, authors, institutions to which they are affiliated, correspondence address and e-mail, introduction, material and methods, results and discussion; present photographs, graphs, tables and figures that facilitate illustration and conclusions, and present the logos of support and sponsorships, when applicable.

6.10. The presentation of work by banner will be evaluated by two members of the Organizing Scientific Committee and two experts invited by the congress organization.

7. ORAL PRESENTATION OF WORK

7.1. The presentation at CTecHalal of the selected work classified for oral presentation will be made by the first author of the work, provided that he/she proves to have registered with Global Halal Brasil – Business Forum, and presentation by third parties who are not authors of the classified work is prohibited.

7.2. The International Halal Academy will not cover the travel and accommodation costs for the authors of each paper classified for oral presentation at CTecHalal.

7.3. Authors of papers classified for oral presentation must submit their respective electronic files in Power Point (.pps file), with a maximum size of 2 MB, to the email address ctechalal@academiahalal.com.br, within 5 calendar days after the publication of the classified papers. The presentation will last 10 minutes, with 7 minutes for the presentation of the topic and 3 minutes for debates.

7.4. The oral presentation will be held in virtual or in-person rooms, which will take place on the days and times defined by the CTecHalal Organizing Scientific Committee.

7.5. The oral presentation of the papers may be replaced by a round table discussion at the discretion of the Scientific Organizing Committee of CTecHalal. The round table will be composed of the authors of the paper and members chosen by the Scientific Organizing Committee.

8. CLASSIFICATION OF WORKS FOR ORAL PRESENTATION

8.1. Of the works accepted for presentation at CTecHalal, up to 12 (twelve) works will be classified for oral presentation.

8.2. The classification of the works will be carried out by experts appointed by the CTecHalal Organizing Scientific Committee, who will forward the classified works to the CTecHalal Scientific Evaluation Committee.

8.2.1. The Coordinator of the CTecHalal Organizing Scientific Committee will forward the list of classified works, indicating the authors who will make the presentation, for deliberation by the CTecHalal Scientific Evaluation Committee.

8.3. The dissemination of works classified for oral presentation at CTecHalal will only be carried out through publication on the International Halal Academy website and on social networks linked to the event.

9. PUBLICATION OF WORKS

9.1. Responsibility for the content of published works lies exclusively with the author(s).

9.2. Submission of work for evaluation and selection at CTecHalal implies, jointly and severally, permission for the use of images and permission for publication in the CTecHalal annals and in technical journals that are deemed appropriate.

10. FORMATTING WORKS FOR PUBLICATION IN THE CTecHalal PROCEEDINGS

10.1. Text formatting

a) The text must be in Word for Windows format, with a maximum of 5 pages, written in Times New Roman font, size 11 pt. The text must be single-spaced, justified and have a paragraph of 1.25 cm.

b) The following margins must be observed, which must be on an A4 sheet: top, bottom, left and right sides equal to 2.5 cm.

c) The title must be written in all capital letters, centered, size 12 pt, in bold.

d) Authors must be identified in capital letters, Times New Roman format, size 10 pt. In addition to the full name, the profession, institution, city, state, address and e-mail for correspondence must be provided, also in Times New Roman format and size 10 pt.

e) The texts of scientific papers must contain a title with a maximum of 15 words; an abstract with a maximum of 15 lines; keywords with a minimum of 3 words and a maximum of 5 words, which must not be contained in the title; title in English; abstract; keywords; introduction, material and methods, results and discussion, conclusion and references.

f) The texts of technical papers and reports may also follow the following format:

Context or Introduction, Product/service or Development, Conclusions and References (optional).

g) The introduction, material and methods, results, discussion and conclusion may be written separately or together as a technical report. Acknowledgements are optional. The sections should be formatted in capital letters and bold in size 11 pt.

h) The titles of tables and figures should be written above them, in Times New Roman format, font size 11 pt.

i) Bibliographic references must be in accordance with the examples.

10.2. In-text citations

a) When the citation has only one author: Zonta (2010) or (Zonta, 2010).

b) When the citation has two authors: Mielniczuk & Tornquist (2010) or (Mielniczuk & Tornquist, 2010).

c) When the citation has more than two authors: Pezzopane et al. (2010) or (Pezzopane et al., 2010).

d) When the author of the work is an institution/company, the citation should be its acronym, in capital letters. Examples: EMBRAPA (2010) or (EMBRAPA, 2010).

10.3. List of cited literature

Bibliographies cited in the text should be arranged in the list in alphabetical order, by the last name of the first author, in ascending chronological order and contain the names of all authors. The following are examples of formatting: a) Books

Paz, VPS; Oliveira, A.; Perreira, FA; Gheyi, HR Management and sustainability of irrigation in arid and semi-arid regions. 1st ed. Cruz das Armas: UFRB, 2009. 344p. b) Book chapters

Antuniassi, UR; Baio, FHR Pesticide application technology. In: Vargas, L.; Roman, ES Weed management and control manual. Passo Fundo: EMBRAPA Trigo, 2009. Chap.5, p.173-212.

c) Magazines

Silva, VG de F.; Andrade, AP; Fernandes, PD; Silva, I. de F. da; Azevedo, CAV; Araujo, JS Productive characteristics, and water use efficiency in cotton plants under different irrigation strategies. Brazilian Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, v.14, n.2, p.451-457,

2010.

d) Dissertations and theses

Francisco, PRM Classification and mapping of land for mechanization in the State of Paraíba using geographic information systems. Areia: UFPB, 2010. 122f. Dissertation (Master's in Soil and Water Management).

e) Papers presented at conferences (Proceedings, Abstracts, Proceedings, Diskettes, CD ROMs) Centeno, CRM; Azevedo, CAV; SANTOS, DB dos; Lyra, VM of; LIMA, VLA of.

Cultivation coefficient of BRS castor oil plant irrigated with different levels of saline water. In: Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Agricultural Engineering, 9, and Brazilian Congress of

Agricultural Engineering, 39, 2010, Vitoria. Proceedings… Jaboticabal: SBEA, 2010. CD ROM.

f) In the case of CD ROM, the title of the publication will continue to be Annals, Abstracts or Proceedings, but the number of pages will be replaced by the words CD ROM. For journals available on the Internet, do not include any page address information, as per item c.

g) Internet citations: IBGE. Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. 2009. Available at:

http://www.ibge.gov.br. Accessed on: March 12, 2011.

11. CERTIFICATION

11.1. Certificate of participation in the Halal Technical-Scientific Congress – CtecHalal. It will be issued online to all CTecHalal participants.

11.2. Letter of Acceptance of work selected for presentation at CTecHalal.

It will be issued online to authors whose work has been accepted for presentation at CTecHalal.

11.3. Certificate of Merit

It will be issued online to authors whose works have been classified for presentation.

oral presentation at CTecHalal. At the end of the oral presentation session (in the case of in-person presentation), the author who presented the work will receive a printed certificate.

11.4. Certificate of presentation of work on a banner at CtecHalal. It will be issued online to the author who presented the banner.

11.5. CtecHalal speaker certificate.

It will be issued online, or in printed form (in the case of in-person) and will be given to the speaker at the end of the lecture/mini-course session, indicating the topic of the lecture/mini-course given.

11.6. Certificate of participation in mini-course.

Issued online to the mini-course participant, indicating the topic and the number of hours completed in the mini-course.

11.7. CtecHalal activity mediator certificate.

Issued online to the mediator at the end of the CtecHalal activity, indicating the theme of the activity.

11.8. Certificates issued online will be available to interested parties within 5 calendar days from the closing date of CtecHalal. Certificates issued online will be available to the awardee in the CtecHalal registration systems for 90 (ninety) days from the closing date of the event.

12. GENERAL PROVISIONS

12.1. Submission of papers to CtecHalal will be made exclusively through the submission system by the deadline stipulated in the REGULATIONS, published on the International Halal Academy homepage. Submission of papers through the CtecHalal submission system after the deadline stipulated in the REGULATIONS will not be permitted.

12.2. The data entered into the CtecHalal registration systems will be the sole responsibility of the first author, and there may be no subsequent changes, especially to the title of the work that will be used to generate the certificates a posteriori.

12.3. The International Halal Academy and the congress organization are not responsible for registration/enrollment not completed by any of the interested authors and which is not officially registered in the registration system.

12.4. Any questions arising regarding the application of these rules should be sent to the email address secretariageral@academiahalal.com.br.