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The Intra-Corporate Transferees (“ICT”) Directive was adopted in 2014 This innovative piece of labour migration legislation was to be transposed in the domestic rules of the EU Member States by 29 November 2016. While very few countries complied with this deadline, we can already draw several preliminary conclusions about the impact of this Directive at policy and business level. In this article we analyse the most far-reaching provisions of the EU ICT Directive and we compare it to one of the most efficient pre-existing national schemes: the Dutch Highly Skilled Migrant permit. Current transposition in the implementingMember States also allows us to comment upon the choices made at domestic level where the Directive grants
national authorities room for manoeuvre and to evaluate the consequences in terms of harmonization. Finally, we discuss the added value and the shortcomings of the ICT Directive and we offer a brief overview of how it is perceived by multi-national
companies.