University legislation in Catalonia and Spain

Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, establishing the regulation of official university degrees. This royal decree establishes the new qualification system based on two levels—degree and postgraduate—and three cycles, and regulating first-cycle courses leading to official degree qualifications (BOE 260, 30.10.2007).
http://www.boe.es/g/es/boe/dias/2007/10/30/seccion1.php#00004

Decree 200/2007, of 10 September, regarding the reorganisation of the Ministry of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise. Article 91 of this decree refers to the change of name and function of the Office for the European Area of Knowledge and International Promotion of the Catalan Universities.
(DOGC 4967, 13.09.2007, p. 30136).
https://www.gencat.net/diari/4967/07248022.htm

Cabinet agreements on the qualifications for regulated professions. These agreements establish the terms to which the syllabuses of courses leading to qualifications for a particular profession must be adapted.
http://www.mec.es/universidades/legislacion/html/titulos-profesiones-reguladas.html

Decree 253 of 21st October, 2003, creating the Office for the European Higher Education Area and the Office for the Promotion of Catalan universities. This Decree creates the Office for the European Higher Education Area attached to the General Secretary of the Inter-University Council of Catalonia.
http://www.gencat.net/diari/3998/03279120.htm

Royal Decree 1171 of 12th September, 2003, incorporating into the Spanish legal system Directive 2001/19/CE of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14th May, 2001, modifying directives on professional recognition and the corresponding Royal Decrees on transposition (Official Gazette of the Spanish State 225, 19.09.2003). This Royal Decree affects the mobility of professional people by recognising diplomas and other professional qualifications.
http://www.boe.es/g/es/bases_datos/doc.php?coleccion=iberlex&id=2003/17689&txtlen=1000

Royal Decree 1125 of 5th September 2003, establishing a European credit system and a system for assessing official university qualifications valid throughout Spain (Official Gazette of the Spanish State 224, 18.09.2003). The objective of this Royal Decree is to establish the European credit as a unit for measuring academic achievement with regard to official university education and also to establish systems for assessing the academic results obtained by students receiving this education.
http://www.mec.es/universidades/legislacion/files/a-34355-34356.pdf

Royal Decree 1044 of 1st August 2003, establishing the procedure for the issue by universities of the European Diploma Supplement (Official Gazette of the Spanish State 218, 11.09.2003). Within the framework of the European Higher Education Area, this Supplement will allow easier recognition of qualifications and will aid mobility of university students and, also the integration of qualified people into a single job market.
http://www.mec.es/universidades/legislacion/files/a-33848-33853.pdf

Royal Decree 253 of 28th February, 2003, incorporating into the Spanish legal system, Directive 1999/42/CE of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7th June, 1999, establishing a mechanism for the recognition of qualifications relating to the professional activities to which the directives on deregulation and transitory measures refer (Official Gazette of the Spanish State 52, 1.03.2003). This Royal Decree regulates the right of EU nationals to establish and freely provide, in Spain and on a self-employed basis or on behalf of someone else, any services relating to any of the activities listed in annexe A of Directive 1999/42/CE, a copy of which is attached in the annexe to this Royal Decree.
http://www.boe.es/g/es/bases_datos/doc.php?coleccion=iberlex&id=2003/04245

Law 1 of 19th February 2003, governing Catalan universities (Official Catalan Government Gazette 3826, 20.02.2003). This Law aims to contribute to the construction of a profoundly universalistic, and, in particular, Europeanist university system, and specifies that the creation of a European Higher Education Area, using the 1999 Bologna Declaration signed by European education ministers, should help to give coherence to a university arena which by definition, knows no borders (articles 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 32, 33, 34 and 35, fourth additional provision and sixth transitory provision).
http://www10.gencat.net/dursi/generados/catala/universitats/recurs/doc/llei1_03_dogc_3826.htm

Organic Law 6 of 21st December 2001, governing universities (Official Gazette of the Spanish State 307, 24.12.2001). This Law contemplates an active and diversified policy of grants and assistance for students in order to promote mobility and equality in the conditions of access to university studies.
With the aim of adapting to the European Higher Education Area, the Law contemplates a series of measures allowing any necessary modifications to the study structures to be carried out in accordance with any general policies issued with regard to this area (articles 87, 88, 89 and tenth additional provision of the Law).
http://www10.gencat.net/dursi/pdf/un/congreslouaprovacio.pdf