Annually the Doctoral Academic Committee shall assess the research Plan and the Document of activities along with the reports that to that effect should the tutor or the director announce. The positive assessment will be the essential requirement to continue in the doctoral programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies. In case of negative assessment, which shall be duly motivated, the doctoral student should be assessed again in the term of six months, to whose effect it will produce a new Research Plan. In the event of a new negative assessment, the doctoral student will be permanently unsubscribed to the programme.