The proposed chain begins with a directive defining scope and questions, moves to a data request and national baseline, and culminates in an industrial position setting out red lines, options, risks and remedies. The purpose is not to invent a rigid timetable, but to ensure that irreversible choices do not precede the information needed to assess them.
A meaningful gap is not limited to complete inactivity. It can be a mandate without site-level data, a baseline that counts employees while ignoring IP and technical authority, a roundtable convened after product lines have already been assigned, or a report that aggregates European employment while obscuring the Italian distribution. In each case the weakness lies in the evidentiary quality of the process.
The dossier also preserves an important distinction: non-public internal work cannot be assumed not to exist. What can reasonably be requested, however, is at least the index, status, owner and deadline of the relevant documents. Until evidence is available, “insufficient public evidence” is more accurate than speculation about motives.
Mandate, baseline, national position, tools, thresholds and reporting should each have an owner and a date.
