Staff of the AITEC R & D & i department invested as doctors by the Polytechnic University of Valencia in the solemn closing ceremony of the academic year 2016-2017.

The Universitat Politècnica de València has celebrated today, Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 11:30 am, the Closing of the academic year 2016-2017, in the Auditorium of the Rectorate.

In this solemn act has been awarded the diploma accrediting the extraordinary Prizes of Doctoral Thesis, and the investiture has been made as new Doctors and Doctors.

Today, the amendments to the Regulation on the International Transport of Dangerous Goods by Rail have been published in the BOE. (RID 2017) Appendix C to the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF), done at Berne on 9 May 1980, adopted by the Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods at its 54th meeting in Bern on 25 May 2016.

The provisions of the new RID 2017 regulations came into effect on January 1, 2017, and replace the RID 2015, however a transitional measure allows to continue applying the RID 2015 until June 30, 2017.

The European Union has also adopted the new regulation through the adoption of Commission Directive (EU) 2016/2309. The RID is a legal and essential rule that regulates the international transport of dangerous goods by rail. In Spain, it also applies to national transport.

The RID 2017 contains new provisions that incorporate the advances derived from technical and scientific progress and which contribute gradually to an improvement of safety.