Article 25
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter I of this Title, a Community company or a Tajik company established in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan or the Community respectively shall be entitled to employ, or have employed by one of its subsidiaries or branches, in accordance with the legislation in force in the host country of establishment, in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Community respectively, employees who are nationals of Community Member States and the Republic of Tajikistan respectively, provided that such employees are key personnel as defined in paragraph 2, and that they are employed exclusively by companies, or branches. The residence and work permits of such employees shall only cover the period of such employment. 2. Key personnel of the abovementioned companies herein referred to as ‘organisations’ are ‘intra-corporate transferees’ as defined in (c) in the following categories, provided that the organisation is a legal person and that the persons concerned have been employed by it or have been partners in it (other than majority shareholders) for at least the year immediately preceding such movement: (a) Persons working in a senior position with an organisation, who primarily direct the management of the establishment, receiving general supervision or direction principally from the board of directors or stockholders of the business or their equivalent, including: — directing the establishment or a department or subdivision of the establishment, — supervising and controlling the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees, — having the authority personally to hire and fire or recommend hiring, firing or other personnel actions. (b) Persons working within an organisation who possess uncommon knowledge essential to the establishment’s service, research equipment, techniques or management. The assessment of such knowledge may reflect, apart from knowledge specific to the establishment, a high level of qualification referring to a type of work or trade requiring specific technical knowledge, including membership of an accredited profession. (c) An ‘intra-corporate transferee’ is defined as a natural person working within an organisation in the territory of a Party, and being temporarily transferred in the context of pursuit of economic activities in the territory of the other Party; the organisation concerned must have its principal place of business in the territory of a Party and the transfer be to a branch or a subsidiary of that organisation effectively pursuing like economic activities in the territory of the other Party.