The deadlines of the competition are as follows:
| Opening of the registration site at | |
| http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/CPAI09 | May 2009 |
| Constraint request and submission deadline | April 10, 2009 |
| Pre-registration of contestants | May 30, 2009 |
| Final registration (submission of solvers and benchmarks) | June 10, 2009 |
| Test of solvers conformance | June 2009 |
| Competition running | Summer 2009 |
| Final results available | during CP 2009 |
Once submitted, solvers will be run on a limited number of benchmarks to make sure that they interact correctly with the evaluation environment. Potential problems will be reported to the authors in June 2009. Bug fixes will be due one week after the bug has been reported to the authors.