These regulations were approved in the Executive Council of 3 December 1998 and mean the acceptance of Royal Decree 778/1998, of 30 April, regulating the third cycle of university studies, the obtaining and issuance of doctoral degrees and other postgraduate studies (BOE no. 104 - 1 May 1998).
The new structuring of the doctoral programmes and the requirements esbalished in RD 778/1998, of 30 April, make it necessary to introduce new regulations for these studies at the University of Girona.
The regulatory implementation that follows is based on the above mentioned royal decree and the document General lines for the academic regulations of doctoral programmes at the UdG, which the Vice-Rectorate for Academic regulations submitted to the Doctoral studies committee for consideration and which was approved by the Executive Council of the University on 5-11-1998.