Keywords
Summary

Keywords

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1 . Free movement of persons - Freedom of establishment - More than one place of work in the Community - Person engaged in employment in one Member State and self-employed in another .

( EEC Treaty, Arts 48 and 52 )

2 . Free movement of persons - Freedom of establishment - Workers - National rules exempting from social security contributions persons pursuing an occupation on a self-employed basis at the same time as employment - Refusal to grant exemption in the case of employment in another Member State - Not permissible .

( EEC Treaty, Arts . 48 and 52 )

Summary

1 . Freedom of establishment is not confined to the right to create a single establishment within the Community but entails the right to set up and maintain, subject to observance of the relevant professional rules of conduct, more than one place of work within the Community . That applies also to a person who is employed in one Member State and wishes, in addition, to work in another Member State in a self-employed capacity .

2 . Articles 48 and 52 of the Treaty preclude national legislation which might place Community citizens at a disadvantage when they wish to extend their activities beyond the territory of a single Member State . Those articles must therefore be interpreted as meaning that a Member State may not refuse to exempt self-employed persons working within its territory from the contributions provided for under the national legislation on social security for self-employed persons, where employment is coupled with a self-employed activity, on the ground that the employment which is capable of giving entitlement to such exemption is pursued within the territory of another Member State .