31For Directive 2001/23 to be applicable, that taking over of employees must relate to a stable economic entity whose activity is not limited to performing one specific works contract. The concept of economic entity thus refers to an organised grouping of persons and assets enabling the exercise of an economic activity which pursues a specific objective (Joined Cases C-127/96, C-229/96 and C-74/97 Hernández Vidal and Others [1998] ECR I-8179, paragraph 26, and Güney-Görres and Dernir, paragraph 32), and which is sufficiently structured and autonomous (Hernández Vidal and Others, paragraph 27).
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