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Law189/2002

Adopted 2002

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Art. 21

1.Entry into the territory of the State for the purpose of salaried employment, including seasonal and self-employed work, takes place within the entry quotas stipulated under the decrees referred to in article 3, paragraph 4. These decrees also set aside, on a preferential basis, quotas reserved for nation not belonging to the European Union, and with which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, acting in concert with the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and with the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, has signed accords designed to regulate entry flows and procedures for reentry. Within the context of these agreements, special accords can be stipulated governing flows for seasonal labor with the corresponding national authorities responsible for labor market policy in the countries of origin.

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5. The agreements or bilateral accords referred to under paragraph 1 may stipulate that foreign laborers who intend to enter Italy for the purpose of salaried employment, including seasonal work, must register themselves on special lists, identified under these the same agreements, specifying their job titles or working responsibilities, as well as the other prerequisites indicated in the regulations of implementation. The aforementioned agreements may also stipulate procedures for the keeping of lists, and for the subsequent sending of the these lists to the offices of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.

6. Under the agreements or accords referred in the present unified text, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, acting in agreement with the Minister Of Labor and Social Security, may establish integrated projects for the reentry of non-European workers in their countries of origin, assuming that the conditions for such initiatives exist, and that appropriate guarantees are provided by the governments of the countries of origin; as an alternative, approval may be given to requests presented by public and private organizations intending to prepare similar projects, eventually for other countries as well.

7. The regulations of implementation call for procedures under which an annual computerized registry is to be established on the supply and demand for salaried labor supplied by foreign workers, in addition to which steps are to be taken to establish a connection with the archives organized by the National Social Security Institute (I.N.P.S.) and with the central police headquarters.