With regard to the aspects linked to employment continuity, the tender protocol envisages that “Without prejudice to the matters envisaged by the sector-specific national collective labour agreement with regard to social clauses as well as the matters envisaged by Italian Law No. of the personnel in tenders for call center services, having taken into account the provisions as per Article 50 of the new Tender Code dated 18 April 2016, also acknowledging the ethical value of the so-called “social clause” as envisaged by the “Patto per il Lavoro” entered into in Emilia Romagna on 20 July 2015 and within the sphere of the sectors regulated and involving high intensity of manpower, for the purposes of furthering the employment and professional continuity in tenders for work and services inherent to the activities post-first intervention networks and services correlated to the handling of the relationship with the end user (consumption readings and activities ancillary to the meter), in the case of new service tenders already outsourced, and with the exclusion of the cases of insourcing in consideration of the saturation and valorisation aims of the internal resources, the new contractor will be obliged to make an employment offer consistent with the overall conditions existing at the time of the tender changeover such as remuneration and professionalism as well as with the duration of the tender, to the staff employed on a permanent basis and used directly and predominantly in the activities forming the subject matter of the tender, on the workforce care of the outgoing contractor in the period of 90 days prior to the launch of the new management.