41However, the mere fact that the activity carried out by CLECE and that carried out by the Ayuntamiento de Cobisa are similar, even identical, does not lead to the conclusion that an economic entity has retained its identity. An entity cannot be reduced to the activity entrusted to it. Its identity emerges from several indissociable factors, such as its workforce, its management staff, the way in which its work is organised, its operating methods or indeed, where appropriate, the operational resources available to it (see, to that effect, Süzen, paragraph 15; Hernández Vidal and Others, paragraph 30; and Hidalgo and Others, paragraph 30). In particular, the identity of an economic entity, such as that forming the subject of the dispute in the main proceedings, which is essentially based on manpower, cannot be retained if the majority of its employees are not taken on by the alleged transferee.
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