Qualification and decision
First the gates. Then the score.
A product receives no score until its European price, exact identity, mandatory category features and recall status are resolved. The same conditions apply to every product.
Four minimum conditions
- G01
At least one documented European price
- G02
Unambiguous product and variant identity
- G03
All mandatory features of the category
- G04
No active safety recall
Price or identity unresolved → not assessable
Mandatory feature missing or active recall → rejected at the gate
One threshold
70Award threshold
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At least 70 of 100 points under the applied category benchmark. There are no award tiers and no grades.
Evidence before claims
A feature without a usable source and quoted passage is treated as absent. That can cost points, and it never gets filled in by assumption to make a result come out nicer.