18Article 6 of that Presidential Decree, which concerns the maximum duration of fixed-term contracts, provides:1. Successive contracts concluded between and performed by the same employer and the same worker in the same or similar professional activity and under the same or similar terms and conditions of employment may not exceed an overall period of employment of 24 months, irrespective of whether they are concluded in application of the previous article or in application of other provisions of current legislation.2. An overall period of employment exceeding 24 months shall only be permitted in the case of workers engaged in the special categories of work provided for under current legislation such as, in particular, senior managerial staff, workers recruited for a specific research programme or any subsidised or financed programme, and workers recruited in order to perform work required in order to honour obligations pursuant to contracts with international organisations.’
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