OBS_VALUE: The maximum duration of the intra-corporate transfer shall be 36 months for managers and specialists and 12 months for trainee employees after which they shall leave the territory of the Member States unless they obtain a residence permit on another basis in accordance with Union or national law. Under the national law, a work permit has to be obtained. Its duration is 2 years. Repeatedly extendable by 24 months.See also: Directive 2014/66/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals in the framework of an intra-corporate transfer,  article 12.