{"id":24007,"date":"2017-01-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/news\/legislative-decree-253-2016-and-the-conditions-of-entry-and-stay-of-foreign-workers-in-italy-as-part-of-intra-corporate-transfers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:13:46","slug":"legislative-decree-253-2016-and-the-conditions-of-entry-and-stay-of-foreign-workers-in-italy-as-part-of-intra-corporate-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/en\/insights\/normativa\/legislative-decree-253-2016-and-the-conditions-of-entry-and-stay-of-foreign-workers-in-italy-as-part-of-intra-corporate-transfers\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Decree 253\/2016 and the conditions of entry and stay of foreign workers in Italy, as part of intra-corporate transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Legislative Decree No. 253\/2016<\/strong> which regulates the <strong>conditions of entry and stay<\/strong> in Italy of <strong>foreign employees as part of intra-corporate transfers<\/strong> was published in the Official Gazette of 10 January 2017. The aforementioned decree, in force since 11 January, contains the provisions necessary for the transposition of Directive 2014\/66\/EU dated 15 May 2014, the so-called ICT (Inter-corporate transfers) directive. In particular, two articles were introduced into the Consolidated Law on Immigration (Legislative Decree No. 286\/1998): <strong><em>article 27-quinques <\/em><\/strong>and<strong><em> article 27-sexies<\/em><\/strong>. The first identifies (i) the <strong>categories<\/strong> of concerned workers, i.e. managers; qualified workers; workers in training holding a university degree transferred for the purpose of career development or acquisition of skills or company methods; (ii) the <strong>maximum length<\/strong> of time of the intra-corporate transfer, set at three years for managers and qualified workers and one year for trainees; (iii) the definition of <strong>intra-corporate transfer<\/strong> and <strong>host entity<\/strong> as well as (iv) the procedures for sending the applications for entrance permits. <strong><em>Article 27-sexies,<\/em><\/strong> instead, deals with the mobility of foreign workers between EU Countries. This article regulates the <strong>entry<\/strong> and <strong>stay<\/strong> in the <strong>national territory<\/strong> <strong>of workers who already hold an ICT permit<\/strong> issued by another member state.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><span style=\"text-align: left; color: #585857; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislative Decree No. 253\/2016 which regulates the conditions of entry and stay in Italy of foreign employees as part of intra-corporate transfers was published in the Official Gazette of 10 January 2017. 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