General Instructions


 

Health and travelling insurance

It is strongly recommended to arrange all insurance needed as the health care is not free of charge.

Visa

You might need visa to be able to visit Czech Republic. In some cases you might need also visa to return to your original country if you do not held a passport of the original country. Please, check the visa needed at least two months before your departure. In case that you will need a letter of acceptance for the conference consider 14 - 21 days for producing it and air mail delivery [make sure that your postal address in the WSCG registration database is correct; you need to proceed registration first]. Letter of paper acceptance can be issued after the reviewing process is closed.
The FORMAL LETTER of INVITATION cannot be issued as it take very long time - up to 3 months.

In case of any doubt contact immediately Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and/or selected Embassy of the Czech Republic [use SEARCH: EMBASSY]

Custom Information

PLEASE, contact http://www.cs.mfcr.cz for details. Generally it is recommended to declare your financial means if you carry more than 350 000 CZK, approx. 14 000 EUR. No problems have been reported by attendees so far.

Electricity - plugins

We use standard European 240 V 50Hz . The WA9 standard grounded plugins are compatible, you can also use ungrounded one for your notebook.
The complete list of countries that also use these plug adapters is: Algeria, Antilles (Netherlands), Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbajian, Balearic Islands, Bali, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovenia, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (People's Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kirghistan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madeira, Mali, Martinique, Moldavia, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Reunion Island, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Yugoslavia (former). Includes Saint Maarten (St.Martin); the Dutch side runs on 120 voltage (60 cycles) and the French side runs on 220 volts (50 cycles).

 


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