This is an exception to the mathematical accumulation of the penalties for various offenses or as an exception to the application of the general rules for the taxation of real contests own crime penalties (S.T.S. 11 October 1983), institution, so, it becomes plúrime in unit only when such unification is appropriate in the circumstances and nature of the case and the existence of the conditions that shape and characterize this figure which can only be understood in the context of material justice as an instrument at the service of proportionality, adapting the penalty to the seriousness of the offense and the guilt of the author.

The continuing offense is a unit, a figure different behaviors that comprise, therefore you get a unique and unitary treatment, that is to say, when it comes to continuing offense must refer to it as a single offense.